I'm over at Eastern Michigan University in a degree program called Information Assurance where they leave the tech learning up to us to explore and play with on our own, and teach us policy writing, best practices and standards that are regulated, law, and a lot more. This program is funded by the DoD and we get regular visits from them to help us with what ever we need help with (money, information, events, contacts, etc). This type of program forces you to innovate, the teachers tend to fail you out of a class if you just use the by the book answers with no creativity, especially in places like a policy class. We also have a pretty good lab with a lot of good equipment that we can play with, attack, defend, oVVn, what ever we want. So I'd say a security degrees value comes based upon the institution it comes from, how creative they were in teaching it, and what kind of thinkers it puts out. EMU being a CAE(Center for Academic Excellence) we're regulated in what has to be taught for sure, but we get to do what ever we want outside of that. It's a refreshing environment from other security programs I've seen.
