What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In

Yahoo Finance (New York TImes) ^ | 1/23/2012 | ROBERT GEBELOFF and SHAILA DEWAN

[UnwashedPeasant]

We got an interesting question from an academic adviser at a Texas university: could we tell what the top 1 percent of earners majored in?

The writer, sly dog, was probably trying to make a point, because he wrote from a biology department, and it turns out that biology majors make up nearly 7 percent of college graduates who live in households in the top 1 percent.

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.

Below is a chart showing the majors most likely to get into the 1 percent...

[LouAvul]

History majors go on to Law School...

That's my point. They're only revealing a small part of the equation.

[MikeD]

Thanks — I adapted it from a comment by another FReeper years ago. Unfortunately, I forgot to note the screen name, nor save the entire initial quote. I had to shorten it to fit into the tag-length-limit.