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[Omnipotence]

The University of NSW has produced more millionaires than any other Australian university according to a new international league table.

http://www.afr.com/p/national/university_of_nsw_is_australia_top_qrbUqx61jZ2Z9DdCBw0HZJ

 

[Crobat]

"The 10 most popular degrees for millionaires were, in order: engineering, master of business administration, law, economics, bachelor of business administration, commerce, accounting, computer science, finance and politics."

Surprised that computer science wasn't higher given all the million/billionaires walking around coming from that industry...

Also, how come politics makes the list and not med?

 

[RivalryofTroll]

"The 10 most popular degrees for millionaires were, in order: engineering, master of business administration, law, economics, bachelor of business administration, commerce, accounting, computer science, finance and politics."

Surprised that computer science wasn't higher given all the million/billionaires walking around coming from that industry...

Also, how come politics makes the list and not med?

Surprised that medicine is not on the list too....

Anyone have an explanation?

Is it cause that many of those listed degrees have a POSSIBLE ''go for everything or nothing/go for broke'' attitude behind them?

 

[nerdasdasd]

What about biomedical science?

 

[Drifting95]

Surprised to see engineering ahead of the finance type degrees, although this could also involve engineering students eventually moving to the financial sector.

Maybe computer software isn't higher because the most successful drop out and make millions without the need of completing the degree? lol

 

[Trans4M]

^Pretty much. A significant amount of top financial jobs are occupied by engineers haha

 

[Kiraken]

Surprised that medicine is not on the list too....

Anyone have an explanation?

Is it cause that many of those listed degrees have a POSSIBLE ''go for everything or nothing/go for broke'' attitude behind them?

"However, many of the millionaire graduates made their money as entrepreneurs, or from working in the financial services sector, rather than in their field of expertise."

Med graduates don't tend to be as highly represented in the entrepeneur/financial services side of things

 

[BabBab007]

"However, many of the millionaire graduates made their money as entrepreneurs, or from working in the financial services sector, rather than in their field of expertise."

Med graduates don't tend to be as highly represented in the entrepeneur/financial services side of things

Yeah of course most of them are going to be entrepreneurs or work for the financial services industry. The whole financial services industry needs engineering + maths in order to survive etc etc.

But in the terms of engineers working in the finance industry - it's one of the only sectors that has an abundance of jobs and it's the same with the insurance industry. Whilst pure engineering fields, by which I mean working as civil engineers, elect. engineers, mining blah and so on have very limited jobs or are moving away from the boom. In saying so I'd be interested if the data looked at graduates who moved overseas to work in their fields and then compared their incomes too.


Plus as a country we tend not look at a lot of long term infrastructure and financial services tend to monopolise on that.

 

[iJimmy]

thought law/eco would be highest paying, not engineering :/

 

[4025808]

petroleum/mining engo represent

But yeah, surprised at this list....