Why more employers are saying a two-year degree will do

Crain's Chicago Business reports:

The four-year degree "is still the desired standard among businesses right now," says Scott Carlson, senior writer at the Washington, D.C.-based Chronicle of Higher Education, who has covered higher education for 18 years. It persists in the face of a trend toward competency-based education, where students receive credit for classes when they demonstrate certain skills, and micro-credentialing and digital badging, both catching on in the tech world. Requiring a four-year degree is "a way of socio-economically filtering your applicant pool," Carlson adds. Statistics support his assertion: Of the 75,651 bachelor's degrees conferred by Illinois universities and colleges in 2016, 59 percent went to whites, 11 percent to Hispanics and 10 percent to blacks.

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