What the "1%" majored in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is top 1% of individual earners or all includes all adults in 1% households but it's interesting to see that engineering majors aren't more likely than English majors to be in it, while Finance majors aren't particularly well represented.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/what-the-top-1-of-earners-majored-in/

Also interesting is the variation within the social sciences - political science and history majors are more likely to be in it than psych or sociology majors for instance.

That's because those majors are common pre-law studies.