Dismissed by Degrees

Degree inflation is undermining U.S. competitiveness

The rising demand for a four-year college degree for middle-skill jobs not only harms U.S. businesses, it closes off critical career pathways and excludes millions of Americans from securing gainful employment. 

Grads of Life worked with Harvard Business School and Accenture to examine this trend, producing the research report ‘Dismissed by Degrees: How degree inflation is undermining U.S. competitiveness and hurting America’s middle class’.