For anyone already employed in their desired career path potential employers will seldom spend much time looking at education. They focus on experience, demonstrated skills, talking to former employers and coworkers, etc. However, for new/ recent graduates for many their primary selling point is their education. If BYU loses accreditation, many employers will not hire you as a new/ recent grad. My son-in-law is an exception to what I stated, but in all the wrong ways and illustrates the point made above. He has years of experience in a job he was applying for, but the potential employer (someone he had a relationship with, so he received more clear feedback than most companies will give) told him they were unable to hire him, because the company did not consider WGU/ Western Governor's University an accredited school. He and I didn't chase the details, but WGU is currently accredited by pretty much every major accrediting organization for the degrees they offer, other than the top/ elite ones the PAC12 and BIG10 talk about, so the company may have been referring to old/ no longer accurate accrediting information. I was told clearly that the school I received my graduate degree from was a big part of the reason I was hired for a job I had almost no experience to qualify for early in my career. This was just after completing a graduate degree from a school, not BYU (I have an undergraduate degree from BYU).