Reply #91: It's an HR disqualification criteria

[Nobody]

There has to be a way to weed out the riff raff from jobs that will promote them from the ranks of the riff raff. By requiring a college education for entry level jobs, you can reserve these jobs for the worthy. Everyone else must work three jobs in order to pay the rent.

/sarcasm

By hook and by crook I was able to get promoted from within to a team lead position. The job was posted and one of the requirements was a bachelor's degree (unspecified BA or BS, they didn't care, they just wanted sheepskin). I have never set one foot in a college class of any kind, not being able to afford it or the debt. I made sure that the powers that be knew that I had no college education; they didn't care.

I've also seen job postings for entry level positions requiring more years of experience with a software that didn't exist that long, programming experience in languages still being sent to beta testers, and other impossible to meet criteria.

Hint: if you're applying for a job and they want a bachelor's degree but don't care what the major is and won't specify BA or BS, they probably don't really require a bachelor's degree.