I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.
>I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.
I would add a further element of uncertainty, that applies not specifically to business schools only but to a number of schools/universities.
The professors/dean/etc. may control what is taught at the university, but rarely they can control what the students actiually learn.
If the student perceives the degree as a mere requirement for entry into a career, he/she will not study to learn, he/she will study to pass the exams, which is not at all the same thing and learn and participate as little as possible.
If this is the case, there is no real incentive to teach "better" or teach "more", and what is taught little by little starts diverging from what the industry expects from a graduate, reinforcing the feeling (IMHO correct nowadays) that the degree is just a sort of badge to allow the entry to the club.
The job market however insists on asking these qualificatons even for jobs where they make no sense whatsoever, fueling this perverse mechanism.
