You’re assuming a college education “trains” people in any meaningful way for most jobs.
I think that the sarcastic screed that I wrote represents the process that most modern large employer HR departments and management use. Ithink the term used is “meritocracy”.
It isn’t the degree, it’s the fact that a potential employee has a dergree, regardless of the actual subject of said degree. Even that doesn’t guarantee a foot in the door, because dagleish “aka: doug from mumbai” has a better chance of landing that job than a native does.
I learned my craft through vocational school, on the job training, and a desire to learn as much as possible about what I do, including taking classes in the latest state of the art.
That is not good enough for the 21st century HR department. They’re only interested in hiring labor at the cheapest cost. That is expected of them from their superiors.
It will cost them in the end though, when all of those people they passed up decide to go into business for themselves.