How the college degree lost its value: Nearly half of US companies plan to ax Bachelor’s degree requirements – after Walmart, Accenture and IBM led the charge

Neirin Gray Desai

Nearly half of US companies intend to eliminate Bachelor’s degree requirements for some job positions next year, a new survey has revealed.

And 55 percent said they’d already eliminated degree requirements this year, according to an Intelligent.com survey of 800 US employers, carried out in November.

It comes after WalmartIBM, Accenture, Bank of America and Google announced similar plans. 

The survey found that the same employers that have already eliminated Bachelor’s degree requirements were far more likely to continue doing so.