I can think of some other reasons why employers value degrees: 1- conventional mindedness, funnily enough. Everyone else has been doing it that way so I should

I can think of some other reasons why employers value degrees: 1- conventional mindedness, funnily enough. Everyone else has been doing it that way so I should. 2- protecting career risk in case the new hire sucks. You can point to their qualifications and say that anyone would've made that decision 3- "I have a degree, I'm good, and I subconsciously want to hire people that ticked the same boxes as me"