You have to be careful not to conflate degree inflation, which is about over-zealous filtering in an organization's hiring process, with college education and t

You have to be careful not to conflate degree inflation, which is about over-zealous filtering in an organization's hiring process, with college education and the personal benefits it confers upon the individual who receives it. Put another way, the recipient of a bachelor's degree gets two benefits: 1) a pass through certain HR filters, and 2) the improvement of their personal knowledge and abilities. The distinction matters because we can fix degree inflation where it happens: in HR. That's why HBS is writing about it. We don't need to deny the obvious benefits of post-secondary education to people, just to fix a problem with over-zealous HR filters. (Those aren't unique to college BTW--think of silly requirements like "10 years experience with React.") > I think the fact that liberal arts majors have such a hard time getting a job out of college is an indication that college isn't actually adding value. This would make sense if liberal arts majors had an unusually hard time getting a job out of college, but they don't. Here are some majors and their probability of underemployment in first job and 5 years out. Engineering 29% 18% Communication/Journalism 39% 24% Mathematics/Statistics 39% 26% Foreign Languages 43% 27% Physical Sciences 40% 27% English/Literature 45% 29% Visual/Performing Arts 45% 31% Biological/Biomedical 51% 35% From study linked in article in my earlier comment: https://www.burning-glass.com/wp-content/uploads/permanent_detour_underemployment_report.pdf https://www.burning-glass.com/wp-content/uploads/permanent_d...