No, the pro-college stance is, you get skills and experience from being in a heterogenous environment that you just can't get through on-the-job training. There

No, the pro-college stance is, you get skills and experience from being in a heterogenous environment that you just can't get through on-the-job training. There is certainly a selection bias that can devolve into sheerest credentialism, but people display that selection bias all the time; a go-getter who left school to found a company will sometimes display the same blinkered, aggressively close-minded approach that someone who got a PhD from Stanford can.