<p>or do most people from SEAS become engineers?</p>
<p>1/3 professional schools (law, med, etc)
1/3 finance/business/etc
1/3 engineering/grad school</p>
<p>those were the numbers a few years ago at least</p>
<p>The numbers I usually cite, which like yours are pulled from my bum but based on reality, are:</p>
<p>1/4: Grad school in your academic discipline, or professional school - Law/Med etc ("more schooling")
1/4: Finance, business, mgmt consulting, marketing / advertising, etc ("the money"). Includes some in true engineering, like one of my current roommates - she's a civil engineer
1/4: Journalism, Media, Music, Teaching, either through TFA, NY Teaching Fellows, or other avenues that are more fun but don't pay as well ("fun jobs")
1/4: Other. Might be tech startups, might be "traveling the world on a shoestring budget", might be working on a political campaign, might be returning home to help with the family plumbing business.</p>
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1/4: Journalism, Media, Music, Teaching, either through TFA, NY Teaching Fellows, or other avenues that are more fun but don't pay as well ("fun jobs")
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<p>1/4th???? It's junior year and I don't think I could point to 20 people in my class much less the 100+ your fourth requires that want to do those careers. maybe the breakdowns have changed that much from year to year....</p>
<p>1/4th would be about 80. But yes 1/4 is a large overestimate, it's more like 20-30 who do the fun low paying jobs. It's more like 1/4th in wall street jobs and 1/4 in true engineering jobs. Lots of mech E, EE, chem E, civil, comp sci kids go into true engineering jobs - I've seen this grow over the last couple of years. 30 or so would be premed and 10-15 would be prelaw. Thats a total of about 220. Another 50 or so would go on to non-professional grad school. And another 50 would be Denz's other category.</p>
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1/4: Grad school in your academic discipline, or professional school - Law/Med etc ("more schooling")
1/4: Finance, business, mgmt consulting, marketing / advertising, etc ("the money").
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<p>In contrast with getting a PhD in engineering, going to professional school -- arguably more so law and less so med -- is "the money." It's just deferred.</p>
<p>I think you need to separate engineering grad school from prof school.</p>
<p>maybe so. I was doing that for Columbia as a whole.</p>
<p>For SEAS alone, i'm much less sure of the major categories.</p>
<p>^in that case, I think your break down was quite accurate.</p>