Everyone at the company I worked for needed a degree, even the receptionist. They had a habit of hiring receptionists telling them they would be expected to do work for other departments on their free time to hone their skills and move up, and then refuse to move them up because their receptionists with MASTERS DEGREES would, of course, move up very quickly and then they were perpetually without a receptionist. But they’d post that receptionist job and get 500 applications in a week from college grads, so why would they do any differently? They have it made.
Quite frankly, you didn’t need a college education to do any of the work there. My manager didn’t have one, she was hired before they made that rule. Her manager probably did and probably needed it, but he was a VP for goodness sake, not a receptionist.