i guess it depends on what you like to do.

If you like doing collateral (caps, bags, boxes, posters, etc) and other print stuff, (like applying illustrations to stuff), the gd is teh awesome. For me personally, they made me take alot of web stuff, though apparently i could have taken animation stuff for my tech electives if wanted to. :P

Design is difficult to teach. Illustration and Web, that's easier to learn on your own, but design as a whole is a bit harder than that.