Your recent graduate dc major/ profession/ Income ?

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Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


I looked. You got lucky.

Top investment banking and consulting firms hire from some humanities majors here and there, but obviously most from business, econ, math/statics, and stem majors.

Some data
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools







Your contention is not supported by your cited data, which talks exclusively about schools they target/hire from most (which, yes, are disproportionately “elite”).
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


NP. This is why the whole “you can’t make money with a liberal arts degree” stuff is so silly. This practice has been common for decades. In many industries, they are looking for qualities (e.g., analytical ability), not specific undergraduate training.



+1. Same with training programs in pharmaceutical industry. Very few science majors. Pretty much all DS’s class were liberal arts majors.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


NP. This is why the whole “you can’t make money with a liberal arts degree” stuff is so silly. This practice has been common for decades. In many industries, they are looking for qualities (e.g., analytical ability), not specific undergraduate training.


LOL drawing a conclusion from some postings by a couple of random posters here.

Sorry numbers and data don't lie.
check for yourself - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


I looked. You got lucky.

Top investment banking and consulting firms hire from some humanities majors here and there, but obviously most from business, econ, math/statics, and stem majors.

Some data
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools







Your contention is not supported by your cited data, which talks exclusively about schools they target/hire from most (which, yes, are disproportionately “elite”).



Not my experience at all. Everyone in my training class was a liberal arts major and a few were from regular state schools.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


NP. This is why the whole “you can’t make money with a liberal arts degree” stuff is so silly. This practice has been common for decades. In many industries, they are looking for qualities (e.g., analytical ability), not specific undergraduate training.


LOL drawing a conclusion from some postings by a couple of random posters here.

Sorry numbers and data don't lie.
check for yourself - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/



Economics is a liberal art in BA track.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


I looked. You got lucky.

Top investment banking and consulting firms hire from some humanities majors here and there, but obviously most from business, econ, math/statics, and stem majors.

Some data
https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking
https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools







Your contention is not supported by your cited data, which talks exclusively about schools they target/hire from most (which, yes, are disproportionately “elite”).


oh yes when they hire from humanities kids, they hire from those top schools there.

Are you seriously dreaming that the top IB and consulting firms would go to a mediocre schools and hire humanties kids? LOL

People here need real information, not some pipe dream stories.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:History
I-banking
220k


How does a history major get into international banking?

I would assume some sort of pedigree is involved.



You mean like a degree from an Ivy? No, not at all.


You got lucky



Not at all. Look into large banks.


NP. This is why the whole “you can’t make money with a liberal arts degree” stuff is so silly. This practice has been common for decades. In many industries, they are looking for qualities (e.g., analytical ability), not specific undergraduate training.


LOL drawing a conclusion from some postings by a couple of random posters here.

Sorry numbers and data don't lie.
check for yourself - https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/



Economics is a liberal art in BA track.


By the definition, natural sceiences and even computer science is liberal arts.
Econ is good especailly paired with some STEM minors like CS, statisctics, data scene etc.
Anonymous
Harvard plus history major = easy entrance into investment banking
Anonymous
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?234076-University-of-Virginia-Main-Campus&fos_code=5401&fos_credential=3

UVA history major median starting salay = $40,605

Somebody can get lucky, but OK enough.
Anonymous
Psychology
Children’s Hospital administration
$60? Not high starting.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Latin
In medical school
$0


My brother, an oncologist, was also a Latin major in college!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Psychology
Children’s Hospital administration
$60? Not high starting.


That's a pretty good outcome for psychology
Anonymous
Nursing from JHU
$60K
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:Psychology
Children’s Hospital administration
$60? Not high starting.


That's a pretty good outcome for psychology



Really? She’s looking at graduate schools.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Harvard plus history major = easy entrance into investment banking


Econ at Harvard another major that banks like obv
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