Why Do So Many Jobs Request College Degrees?

ucbalumnus
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:56:05 +0000

Probably because the value of a high school diploma as an indicator of the person’s ability to learn something on the job is not all that great in the US, while the greater availability of people with bachelor’s degrees means that employers can set that as the minimum qualification and still get lots of applicants.

People write about the “education bubble”, but the demand for college education will remain as long as a high school diploma is seen as having little value in assuring the ability to learn something on the job.