Kenya Highlands University Comrades Forum1

Not all degrees are equal.

And nobody is telling you that clearly enough so let me do it.

There are two types of degrees in 2026.
The ones the world cannot function without. And the ones the world has quietly moved on from.

The first type is non-negotiable. Medicine. Engineering. Law. Architecture. Pharmacy. Piloting.

These are not just academic qualifications. They are licenses to operate in spaces where getting it wrong costs lives, collapses buildings, or sends innocent people to prison.

No amount of YouTube tutorials or Udemy courses replaces seven years of medical school. Nobody wants a self-taught surgeon. Nobody wants a vibe-coded bridge.

These degrees still matter enormously. The market for them has not moved. If anything it has grown.

But then there is the second type.

The degree that was supposed to open doors but has been standing in front of a wall for the last decade.

The general business degree in a world full of general business graduates.

The communications degree in a market that stopped asking for communicators and started asking for content creators, copywriters, and digital strategists.

The IT degree from a curriculum that was written before half the current technology existed.

These are not bad people. They are not lazy. They studied hard and did what they were told and walked out into a market that had already moved the goalposts without sending anyone a memo.

Here is the question that matters.
Which type do you have.

Not emotionally. Honestly.

Does your qualification give you access to something the market genuinely cannot get anywhere else. Or does it describe a set of skills that thousands of other graduates also have and that businesses can now find faster, cheaper, and more flexibly through people who learned outside a classroom.

If it is the second type this is not a reason to feel ashamed.
It is a reason to add to it.

The degree gets you considered. The skill gets you chosen.
Know which one you have. Then figure out

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