Game Design/Development Degrees?

I'm a comp sci major and my school offers absolutely nothing related to game development. The only things we ever work on with regards to programming are boring database(banking, accounting, etc.) projects. I took a look on Full Sail's website at their degree program for game development and almost shed tears. They are teaching things that I can only wish my school would teach; directx, openGL, 3D engines, Win32 API, etc.

Now granted I could learn most of that stuff from self-teaching books, which is the route I'll have to take anyway seeing as how my school doesn't teach anything related to game development, I somehow doubt books would offer the same learning experience.

So how are degrees in Game Development/Design regarded? Because until someone tells me they are a joke and a waste of time, jealous Yoda is.

>>7

LISTEN TO THIS MAN

And I'm not saying that as a stupid 4chan catchphrase.

I slept in my college math courses and now I regret it.  Writing graphics systems isn't impossible and I do indeed do it, but it is a mental uphill battle to program any of the math-heavy stuff I'm unfamiliar with because I was a flakey, lazy student in all things math.