> Once employers start de-prioritizing an accredited degree and start recognizing online coursework certifications, it will already be too late. Nobody will be

> Once employers start de-prioritizing an accredited degree and start recognizing online coursework certifications, it will already be too late. Nobody will be going to college for anything short of calculus, law, medicine, or petroleum-related geology. What is the mechanism which will cause this change? It looks a bit chicken/egg from here—there will continue to be college graduates because they are strongly advantaged during hiring, and hiring will continue to strongly advantage graduates because there are enough of them that doing so doesn't drive their costs up much. Plus, no-one in HR gets fired because the Harvard grad didn't work out—take a chance on the guy with a GED and pile of Coursera certificates, OTOH...