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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Could Your Degree Become Worthless?

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Coming up, our degrees becoming worthless.

0:09.0

Animal Jordy of employees would rather quit than return to the office.

0:13.3

One Apple executive did so.

0:16.0

And of course we're going to coach you off.

0:17.7

Let's go.

0:26.2

Our degrees becoming worthless.

0:30.4

In other words, is the worth the ROI that return on investment for degree?

0:37.2

Is it dropping?

0:38.8

Let's look at the data.

0:40.2

This is pretty interesting stuff.

0:42.3

62% of US adults over the age of 25 do not have a bachelor's degree.

0:50.6

62%.

0:51.6

I'm going to tell you something.

0:52.6

If you would have pulled me on that, I would have missed that.

0:55.8

I would have missed it.

0:56.8

I would have thought it might be in the high 30s, 40% as a guy who's paying attention all

1:01.5

the time.

1:02.5

62% of US adults over age 25 do not have a bachelor's degree.

1:06.6

In 2017, let's just take a snapshot.

1:09.7

51% of job listings required a 40-year degree.

1:14.1

By 2021, that number declined to 44%.

1:20.2

So of the job listings in 2021, only 44% of them required a college degree.

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