It worked for me, I went to Uni (Brunel) because I was not sure what I wanted to do when leaving college, after doing a BTECH in Computing.
4 year uni course, taking in all sorts, with 1 year placement as I.T Techy and I fell into mobile development. My final year project was a mobile app for theme parks, which went down well with mobile phone app company when applying for jobs post Uni.
I did though, scrape through on the much lower fee's, but still left with a substantial debt. However the jobs pay well and if sensible you can over-pay and after 7 years paid it all off. Also managed to save a considerable 5 figure sum for flat deposit at the same time. But then again, I was booring for most part only dabbling a bit with motorbike and such. Some people I know travelled the world and did all sorts before actually getting a job.