If you have a bachelor’s degree and no marketable skills, what does that tell you?

The Hechinger Report has the story.

Graduates of four-year universities flock to community colleges for job skills

Lliana Ibarra’s bachelor’s degree in business administration from Washington State University couldn’t save her from the unemployment line. Now she’s banking on the idea that something else can: community college.

Ibarra is back in a classroom, but this time it’s at Skagit Valley College, about an hour north of Seattle. She expects to receive an associate degree in accounting in June, and use it to start her own company.

“When this opportunity came up I was really excited,” said Ibarra, 41, a mother of two in Mount Vernon, Washington. She enrolled at Skagit Valley just two months after leaving the failed mortgage lender where she worked, and knows there’s a strong demand for accountants and bookkeepers.

A surprising one out of every 14 of the people who attend community colleges — widely regarded as low-tuition options for the less-well-prepared — has already earned a bachelor’s degree, according to the American Association of Community Colleges. That’s 770,000 students. At some community colleges, the proportion is as high as one in five.

Many bachelor’s degree holders attending community colleges are seeking new careers, especially in health-related disciplines such as nursing, while others are looking to upgrade their skills in computer-related professions or other job-rich fields including biotechnology.