Of course its a scam. My husband and son’s all have jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees. The degree helps you get the job because of elitist hiring practices but the required course work has no practical application. It is just the liberal establishment attempting to keep control of our children’s thinking.
“The degree helps you get the job because of elitist hiring practices..”
Exactly. Sometimes that’s becuase the person hiring you had to jump through the college hoop, and now thinks everybody else should too.
But more often I think the problem is this: HR people.
Most HR people know nothing about the position for which they’re screening applicants. So they use a requisite degree level like a big dumb filter.