Are College Degrees Still Worth the Cost?

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Sep 11, 2023

Insider recently reported that four million fewer teenagers enrolled in college in 2022 than in 2012. Several companies including Google, Delta Air Lines, and IBM are rethinking strict degree requirements. Does this mean that college degrees are losing their value? We navigate what these trends mean for higher education institutions and the workforce with Fast Company senior editor Christopher Zara who wrote Uneducated: A Memoir of Flunking Out, Falling Apart, and Finding My Worth and NPR correspondent Elissa Nadworny. We also take your calls.

 

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