A degree gets you a better job.
Especially when it's a proper one from a proper university.
Nobody ever does better by working their way up or taking up professions not requiring a degree.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 0:16, 3 replies)

Depends what you're after as a job.
Sister has a Management degree- along with tens of thousands of other people each year. I don't think it guarantees her a job any more than someone who's worked through a company and knows how it operates that way, especially since so many people have pretty much exactly the same qualification.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 0:24, closed)

In my experience,
and I've been part of the workforce for close on 30 years now, a degree for managing shit, while favoured by some employers is fucking useless for getting quality managers. The best managers have experience at what they manage. Those who got a management degree without prior experience have been pretty much worthless if not dangerous.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:13, closed)

See also: fast-tracking.
Great at getting good looking, well spoken, politically sound candidates into the right social bracket, but whether or not you get anyone who's any good at the job is another matter.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:25, closed)

See also MBA's
An MBA is a set of tools if you already have some nouse and understand how a business works.
Unfortunately most people with a MBA, are just tools
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 12:14, closed)

Try telling that to our engineering department.
Middle class southern kids with an artificially inflated skill set are ten a penny; apprentice-trained electrical or mechanical engineers are becoming rarer by the year.

And in these straitened times, when everything bar insurance and usury is dying on its arse, a degree is nothing more than a gap on your CV where other folk have work experience.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 1:19, closed)

I think that Otto guy would disagree with you there...
They said he'd never amount to anything; now he drives the school bus!
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 16:16, closed)