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IBM, Delta and others have dropped college degree requirements but old hiring habits are hard to break.

Companies such as Walmart and Delta Air Lines and Maryland’s state government have reduced requirements for some positions and shifted their focus to skills.

A study of 51 million job postings shows a trend of companies moving away from degree requirements for many roles.

Millions of jobs requiring a four-year college degree can be done without that level of education, some corporate leaders say. To address inequalities in business and society, some executives suggest that companies shake up their approach to hiring and consider unconventional candidates.

1. Why do you want to go to grad school? A. It’s necessary for my professional development. B. I got an email from FAFSA by accident. 2. Do you kn...

Chip Cutter

Rita McGrath

More U.S. business schools are shutting down traditional master’s in business administration degrees and shifting resources to online M.B.A. and part-time degree programs.

Patrick Lencioni

Chip Cutter

Looking back, adults who took time off before or during college say they have no regrets.

Making challenging subjects fun

Goal-setting closed achievement gaps in a recent experiment. The key element? Students put their thoughts in writing.

When the most selective universities in the United States sent out their admissions decisions for the Class of 2019 a few weeks ago, they also publicly announced—somewhat proudly—how few students they actually admitted this year. In most cases, fewer than one out of ten students were accepted to places such as Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton.Such numbers and the anxiety they produce among high-school students and their parents frustrates Ben Nelson. He graduated from one of those institutions, the University of Pennsylvania, in the mid-1990s. That’s when it was slightly eas