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

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I wish I shared your optimism.

I see this as an effort to continue the dumbing down of American and creating the ability to hire more illiterates. Twenty years ago I noticed a rise in stupid people in the workplace. There’s no other word for it.

[OldMissileer]

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

About a year or two ago some halfway decent study found people graduating college were actually less intelligent than when they entered four years prior.

[Marko413]

The college grad new hires are hardly different than the high school new hires. Both require extensive training on how to do basic things in the office. I’d rather take the high schooler who is often more moldable and had the confidence and boldness to apply with only a high school diploma. We can offer to pay for a practical degree for them once they’ve been with the company a few years and offer it as a way to train and retain them. Both sides win then.

[Continuty122]

A lot of places are giving up on even criminal backgrounds because virtually all minorities and people under 30 would be disqualified now.

[SunkenCiv]

Gee, I wonder what the underlying agenda is? /s

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