C.I.T.O.K.A.T.E.

That says nothing about whether said companies are willing to hire non-college-graduates. It makes perfect sense, within the corporate HR worldview, to require a college degree even if degree-holders will still need to be trained from the ground up, purely as a way of winnowing the number of job applicants down to a reasonable level. That has been the case in the IT field for a decade, and is extremely unlikely to change in a tightening job market. In fact, I would expect it to become more common in all fields as the number of white-collar job-seekers increases.

If there's a bust for that bubble, it's years away.