[FredZarguna]

Employers should dump the college degree requirement and merely use SAT scores and ( possibly) a few specific college courses.

Probably OK unless the degree is in mathematics, statistics, any quantified science, medicine, engineering, computer programming or quantified business major, including accounting. You could dispense with the GBS/GBA requirements for those, but not with the math, physics, and core courses. Simply impossible to do without those. Sorry, but people doing science and technology need to be well-educated. Aptitude or general intelligence (which is mostly what SAT measures) are not enough.

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Charles Murray does state that their are professions that do require specific university degrees, but most of the work done in the U.S. historically never required more than a solid 8th grade education coupled with on the job training, and selected college level courses offered to bright and ambitious employees ( often taught by the professionals working in the business in the evening or on Saturday) .

My father and mother were born in 1913. Few of this generation graduated from high school let along went to college, but look at the health, wealth, and fun produced by this ( greatest) generation. If college was not required for most of the work done then ( except for some very specific professions) then the same is true today.

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Their should be “There”. Oops!

I absolutely agree with you, and so does Charles Murray, that some professions absolutely require a university setting.

But? ....Do you think that everything those in the science professions study needs to be acquired on a campus. There are AP ( advanced placement) tests now given on the high school level that are fully accepted by many colleges. There is a wide variety of AP tests offered.

One young man in my church has a masters in chemical engineering and he complete nearly two years of college credit by taking AP courses ( a certifiable qualifying exam). It saved him a ton of money and **time**.