In this article for the NAS, Prof. Jason Fertig extends and elaborates on my point that the college-degree requirement often has nothing to do with knowledge or skills only college graduates could possibly possess. Instead, when employers say that a job requires a college degree, they’re just screening out presumably less trainable high-school grads. Fertig analyzes a job posting for a management trainee position in a cement plant where a BA is required to drive the point home: The U.S. has a bad case of credentialitis.