What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In
30th January 2012
According to the Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey, the majors that give you the best chance of reaching the 1 percent are pre-med, economics, biochemistry, zoology and, yes, biology, in that order.
And there you have it.
January 31st, 2012 at 10:42
What? No feminist theory or ethnic studies? Must be raaaaacism …
January 31st, 2012 at 12:53
Those surveys are completely wrong. Yes, there are some degrees that will generate higher income upon graduation, but most of the CEOs have BA degrees that wouldn’t qualify a graduate to sell shoes. They may start out low, but when Daddy promotes them to VP for their 25th birthday, they’ll start out earning those biochemists who spent all those long nights studying.
January 31st, 2012 at 18:03
You sound like you resent the wealthy. Are you a closet ‘progressive’, perhaps? Or have you just come to the bitter realization that ‘pure’ capitalism never has existed, and never will?