alt Hacker NewsIt’s important to signaling to employers you have obtained skills useful to them.
And for most students that’s all they really care about.
If the companies stop valuing the diplomas, students will stop paying tuition to attend, and the universities eventually collapse.
This assumes employers will still exist.
You can imagine a world where the Corporate or State AI handles education, tailors it to individual student levels and talents, and assigns work based on its own direct experience of a lifetime of interaction.
You can also imagine that in that world where most humans would be redundant - unless the AI was optimising for human-to-human jobs and for evidence of unusual insight and creativity, not managing bullshit work for corporate profit.