| Undergraduate Degree |
Total
|
% Who Are
1 Percenters |
Share of All
1 Percenters |
| Health and Medical Preparatory Programs | 142,345 | 11.80% | 0.90% |
| Economics | 1,237,863 | 8.20% | 5.40% |
| Biochemical Sciences | 193,769 | 7.20% | 0.70% |
| Zoology | 159,935 | 6.90% | 0.60% |
| Biology | 1,864,666 | 6.70% | 6.60% |
| International Relations | 146,781 | 6.70% | 0.50% |
| Political Science and Government | 1,427,224 | 6.20% | 4.70% |
| Physiology | 98,181 | 6.00% | 0.30% |
| Art History and Criticism | 137,357 | 5.90% | 0.40% |
| Chemistry | 780,783 | 5.70% | 2.40% |
| Molecular Biology | 64,951 | 5.60% | 0.20% |
| Area, Ethnic and Civilization Studies | 184,906 | 5.20% | 0.50% |
| Finance | 1,071,812 | 4.80% | 2.70% |
| History | 1,351,368 | 4.70% | 3.30% |
| Business Economics | 108,146 | 4.60% | 0.30% |
| Miscellaneous Psychology | 61,257 | 4.30% | 0.10% |
| Philosophy and Religious Studies | 448,095 | 4.30% | 1.00% |
| Microbiology | 147,954 | 4.20% | 0.30% |
| Chemical Engineering | 347,959 | 4.10% | 0.80% |
| Physics | 346,455 | 4.10% | 0.70% |
| Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration | 334,016 | 3.90% | 0.70% |
| Accounting | 2,296,601 | 3.90% | 4.70% |
| Mathematics | 840,137 | 3.90% | 1.70% |
| English Language and Literature | 1,938,988 | 3.80% | 3.80% |
| Miscellaneous Biology | 52,895 | 3.70% | 0.10% |
Huh. Someone get me Obama’s transcripts will you? I’d like to see which classes he took and his GPA.
Useless list. An undergraduate degree in history made the list? What the “researchers” aren’t telling is what the grads did after college to get into the 1%. A lot of people who majored in history go on to get law degrees, etc.
Physics below Art History? Really? Oh well, too late for me now...
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This is interesting, but what I think would make it even more interesting is in total, and separately for each of the college majors in the list, what are the current occupations of those in the top 1%
I think it would suprise many people to see just how many in the top 1% are NOT in or even close to “Wall Street”, and just how many are not even in a “business” profession.
I’d be willing to bet that a good percentage of them have never seen the inside of a college classroom.
What the list doesn’t show is the selectivity issue. Some people might have chosen ‘history’ or ‘philosophy’ because their family could afford them to choose such majors. So, it’d be interesting to see how many of those majoring in humanities actually came from the family of say Top 20%.
Looks like the H1-b visa program has really worked to keep wages down in the engineering field. Way to go USA.
As a contrast and not defending Euroweenies, If you did this survey in Europe Engineering and science would be near the top. Here it is a tiny little fraction.