I only vote for the work experience than degrees which contributes more for anybody's success in life.
I am a graduate with 12-13 yrs. experience in HR & Admn. and also Secretarial field and have been working with higher officials like CMDs, Directors, OSDs etc. which helped in gaining lot of managerial skills with very good RATHER EXCELLENT command on spoken & written English which really even MBAs, Engineers, PHDs or other post graduates (of course, particularly, the youngsters) and even persons who kept up 20-25 yrs. of experience, CANNOT do confidently. They cannot even mingle freely with higher officials except being interested in their ASSURED perks, allow. etc., particularly, if they are govt. employees.
But, only the heartening thing is that OR EVEN THE THING WHICH PINCHES is that all these above category of employees are paid higher salaries & facilities only by virtue of their so-called technical & professional qualifications irrespective of their less knowledge in official decorum WHICH I AM REGULARLY EXPERIENCING (AS A SILENT SPECTATOR) I, TOO BEING A GOVT. EMPLOYEE. Even they also really accept and admire the ability of the experienced people w/out much qln.