&gt; <i>As more and more future managers go through college, I expect many to become more and more skeptical of the aptitude and capabilities of the average graduate.</i><p>We agree there, but doesn&#x27;t the next sentence represent a fundamental shift in thinking? I would think it much more likely for businesses and managers (particularly HR) to simply shift their signalling from Bachelor&#x27;s degrees to Master&#x27;s degrees rather than from Bachelor&#x27;s degrees to a context-sensitive review of your body of work. It&#x27;s much easier to say &quot;I have a Master&#x27;s in CS from Stanford&quot; than it is to say &quot;Here&#x27;s my GitHub portfolio, let&#x27;s talk about a few of my projects.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d much rather folks focus on what they&#x27;ve actually accomplished rather than the institution they happened to attend, but I don&#x27;t see it happening, particularly from HR folks who are not technically inclined and are simply trying to get a pile of 500 resumes down to a dozen. And like you said with SV, in elite circles you can&#x27;t swing a dead cat without hitting a job ad looking for someone from {Stanford|Harvard|MIT}.