Can I Get My Book Series Published Without A Collegue Degree?

I am writting 12 books, all one series. Each are 500 pages long (about). They are already planned out and each event is precise to what i want them to be. They are really good and original ideas. I need money for collegue and im hoping I can get them copywrited and published within a year (first book has a roughdraft already). I just need to get the first book published to get some money and check to see if the fans like it or not before I wish to publish the others. So, how would I go about doing this? I checked with a Collegue and they said I had to go to a 4 years University in order to become a writer. Is this true? Please, give me your ideas.