There's a cult-like crew in Silicon Valley that thinks the days of going to "college" in a "place" are numbered—that if our country's higher education system is broken (probably), the fix lies in browsing websites (hmm). A test run in California says otherwise.

Stanford has been a west coast corporate feeder for decades, but now tech's trendiest degree is also the school's most popular: a full tenth of the school's 7,000 undergrads are declaring in CS.