Comment by mkprc

Isn't this surrogation of university degrees for worthiness of employment getting absurd? A PhD holder is supposed to be on the frontier of some domain of knowledge. As human knowledge expands, it should be taking students longer to earn a PhD. But the insistence of employers on hiring only PhDs for certain roles incentivises this acceleration of PhD programs that undermine their original purpose. Three-year Bachelor's degrees are becoming more common for the same reason.