Because they know that if you had graduated, you would have, at every turn, mentioned the name and date of your degree, instead!

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artisinal 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In my country “Computer Science” would be your degree. Your graduation date also isn’t mentioned, just the year.

	▲	ButlerianJihad 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		"Academic degrees" are, by definition, named something as categories. In your country do they not have the concept of a "bachelors" degree, or "associate" degree or "masters" or "doctorate"? B.A., B.S., A.S.? Other popular categories could include "fine arts", "PhD", etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_degree Anyone putting letters after their name, i.e. postnominals, has graduated and obtained a degree. Sometimes they put the field of study but sometimes you will just see someone on LinkedIn as, "Jane Smith, MA". Could probably write something like you were in the B.A. track of your field of study. People will write "pursuing graduate degree" or "postdoc" or suchlike. But that is not what GP wrote. GP wrote a field of study; while "Computer Science" describes degree programs, it is undifferentiated, and wouldn't be considered a "degree" by the skeptical reader of CVs.

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gambiting 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Eh? Would you? I have two degrees and I never mentioned exactly what they are on my CVs, literally just like above - "2010-2014 Computer Science at University X". I've reviewed countless CVs when I was a hiring manager for a few years too, and I don't really recall if people wrote down what they got, nor was it ever relevant for any position outside of intern ones.

	▲	ButlerianJihad an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Whatever the reason for not asking that question, it would be a terrible question to ask an interviewee in that situation. "Did you actually graduate from this place?" It would be the equivalent of asking "did you lie on your CV?" If I wrote a CV and they began asking me questions that were answered by my CV, I would read that as skepticism. Conversely, perhaps the interviewers are so good that they only ask questions where they already know the answers, in that regard. Neither of you have mentioned the qualifications of the jobs you sought. Perhaps those companies did not require or factor-in the degrees of candidates. Perhaps they can open up LinkedIn and see whether or not you graduated. Perhaps they just called their sorority sister at the Registrar for an informal reminiscence about the weather in 2021. I can understand if you want to put the year-range that you attended college. Perhaps you want to prove you graduated in 4 years, rather than taking 6. There are more people who are unwilling to put any year at all to their education, lest someone figure out that they are over 40. The bottom line is that if you ask 5 people about résumé building and job interviews, you'll hear 6 opinions on what is right, what is wrong, what is legal, etc. There is plenty of bad advice, and narrow opinions, mine included.