A lot of success in life requires being able to tell a story. Not lie, but telling others your accomplishments in an interesting way. You can say, my greatest

A lot of success in life requires being able to tell a story. Not lie, but telling others your accomplishments in an interesting way. You can say, my greatest accomplishment this year was maintaining a large rails app, or you can say, I lead a team of 3 developers to architect and deliver a custom commerce app that helped a startup quadruple their revenues over the next quarter. Both are the same story, one of them is far more interesting. I would expect your hypothetical character to explain why going to college was his most significant achievement in an interesting way (not "I went to college" but "I overcame all $these_obstacles to achieve my dream of a college degree"), and then I don't see why a company wouldn't be excited by his accomplishment.