45% Of US Companies Plan To Axe Bachelor's Degree Requirements

The Daily Mail ^ | 11/29/23 | Neirin Gray Desai

[Enlightened1]

Nearly half of US companies intend to eliminate Bachelor's degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed.

And 55 percent said they'd already eliminated degree requirements this year, according to an Intelligent.com survey of 800 US employers, carried out in November.

It comes after Walmart, IBM, Accenture, Bank of America and Google announced similar plans.

The survey found that the same employers that have already eliminated Bachelor's degree requirements were far more likely to continue doing so.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-12806053/companies-ax-college-bachelors-degree-requirements-walmart.html

[Salman]

Is it dumbing down? Or is it a method of avoiding the "woke"?

Could be both.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The High School “diploma” today is equal to a 6th Grade “graduation” certificate a few decades back.

Companies are going to be hiring complete ignoramuses who cannot read, write or cipher (channeling Jethro).

I wonder why they are doing this. Hmmm...it’s a mystery.

[BigFreakinToad]

My worthless associates degree lives!!!

[4Runner]

'A person's educational credentials are not the only indicators of success, so we advanced retarded our approach to hiring to focus on skills, experiences and potential,' CEO of Accenture North America, Jimmy Etheredge, told the outlet.

Fixed.

[Signalman]

Wise move. Today, a BA issued by most US universities means you’ve been indoctrinated for 4 years by the communist faculty.

[SaxxonWoods]

Today’s BA grads are less educated than yesterday’s high school dropouts so why care about a diploma?

[Sacajaweau]

Been saying it for years...we need more apprentice programs and/or trade schools.

[Enlightened1]

I’m thinking it’s to hire the people coming illegally over the border.

[Codeflier]

Many college graduates can barely read as well these days. What they should be doing is avoiding people under 40. LOL.

[4Runner]

See Post #3. That's exactly why we need the ones with the BA/BS degree so at least we know they function at high school level. Today's HS grads are a joke waiting to unravel.

[Seruzawa]

Too many kids coming out of college are utterly unprepared for the workplace. Worse the indoctrination baggage = employees who cause constant trouble over contrived nonsense. Who wants employees who come crying every time they hear something they don’t like?

[antidemoncrat]

We don’t need any steenkin employees with STEM degrees cause we got AI software.

[GAgal]

Exactly. Those in “skilled trades” like electricians, plumbers, home-builders, etc. are doing very well. Our granddaughter is in “nursing school” which is a skilled trade/profession.

[Reily]

I guess corporations now have lawyers that have figured a way around Griggs vs Duke Power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.

Why did it take so long?

[Angelino97]

Did any of you read to the final paragraph?

A report published by the Burning Glass institute last year described the growing trend of cutting degrees as a requirement as 'an essential step in reducing inequity in the American labor market.'

Seems part of the motive is that blacks are less likely to have a college degree, so some companies are replacing B.A. requirements with how one contributes to a company's diversity.

[SaxxonWoods]

While your take seems logical, I’m suspicious students are worse off after college these days. I graduated in the 70’s and it took me about 10 years to throw off the commie indoctrination.

[Vaduz]

45% Of US companies switch to McDonalds hiring plan if they are warm hire them.

[Alberta's Child]

I can tell you from personal experience that even in my own STEM field that requires a bachelor of science degree as a bare minimum for professional licensure, you’re better off hiring a sharp high school graduate as an intern than a college graduate who is likely to be highly defective by the age of 22.

[RoosterRedux]

Companies can't dumb down without killing productivity. What they can do is avoid useless Woke degrees and the people who seek/have them, pay people less, and educate/train their own people to meet their needs.

Online resources like KhanAcademy.org can help train people in math skills much more quickly, more effectively, and less expensively than colleges anyway.

If a company wants some of its people to have degrees in certain applicable subjects, it can send them to night school (even online).

This is a great model that has been a long time coming.