[slyall]

I wonder if a degree will go the way of some of the Industry Certs like CCNA and MCSE. 10-15 years ago the only people who got those were people who were serious about IT and often had been working on those platforms for years.

Then the dot-com boom happened and people just bought study guides to get the certs and you got complaints about people with the certs who didn't know what they were doing.

2 results of that are that the certs got harder and employers started ignoring them since they were not a good predictor of job performance.

Similarly with a degree, 40 years ago a degree meant you were top 10% and got you on the management track (or equivalent).

These days it is a much weaker signal, you're probably above average but maybe only a little bit. The top 20% of degree-less people probably beats out the bottom 20% of those with degrees.