沛县人民医院在哪里:What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In

By ROBERT GEBELOFF and SHAILA DEWAN | New York Times – Mon, Jan 23, 2012 1:16 PM EST
We got an interesting question from an academic adviser at a Texas university: could we tell what thetop 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 (excluding majors held by fewer than 50,000 people in 2010 census data). The third column shows the percentage of degree holders with that major who make it into the 1 percent. The fourth column shows the percent of the 1 percent (among college grads) that hold that major. In other words, more than one in 10 people with a pre-med degree make it into the 1 percent, and about 1 in 100 of the 1 percenters with degrees majored in pre-med.
Of course, choice of major is not the only way to increase your chances of reaching the 1 percent, if that is your goal. There is also the sector you choose.
A separate analysis of census data on occupations showed that one in eight lawyers, for example, are in the 1 percent -- unless they work for a Wall Street firm, when their chances increase to one in three. Among chief executives, fewer than one in five rank among the 1 percent, but their chances increase if the company produces medical supplies (one in four) or drugs (two in five). Hollywood writers? One in nine are 1 percenters. Television or radio writers? One in 14. Newspaper writers and editors? One in 62.
Undergraduate Degree / Total / % Who Are 1 Percenters / Share of All 1 Percenters
Health and Medical Preparatory Programs142,34511.8%0.9%
Economics1,237,8638.2%5.4%
Biochemical Sciences193,7697.2%0.7%
Zoology159,9356.9%0.6%
Biology1,864,6666.7%6.6%
International Relations146,7816.7%0.5%
Political Science and Government1,427,2246.2%4.7%
Physiology98,1816.0%0.3%
Art History and Criticism137,3575.9%0.4%
Chemistry780,7835.7%2.4%
Molecular Biology64,9515.6%0.2%
Area, Ethnic and Civilization Studies184,9065.2%0.5%
Finance1,071,8124.8%2.7%
History1,351,3684.7%3.3%
Business Economics108,1464.6%0.3%
Miscellaneous Psychology61,2574.3%0.1%
Philosophy and Religious Studies448,0954.3%1.0%
Microbiology147,9544.2%0.3%
Chemical Engineering347,9594.1%0.8%
Physics346,4554.1%0.7%
Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration334,0163.9%0.7%
Accounting2,296,6013.9%4.7%
Mathematics840,1373.9%1.7%
English Language and Literature1,938,9883.8%3.8%
Miscellaneous Biology52,8953.7%0.1%