<p>For those 2 professions CEO-chief executive officer and CFO-chief financial officer,what kind of degree you need to get in undergraduate and graduate university?</p>
<p>I don't think undergraduate matters as much as getting and MBA is a huge step up.</p>
<p>how about finance major for graduate?Is it good enough for both CFO and CEO?</p>
<p>What you need to be a CEO doesn't necessarily come from education.</p>
<p>CEO positions are held for people that can prove they hold more than just an academic understanding of the business they are in. Find out what industry you want to lead and start and the very bottom and work your way through the ranks. When you get to the top you'll know what to slash and what to keep. </p>
<p>As for CFO, just prove successful in handling investments for a hf, ib or whatever corporation will give you a job doing that much.</p>
<p>When it comes to degrees, anything will work for CEO and I would stick to something in Finance for CFO.</p>
<p>CEO's rise up through companies from all areas. Marketing and finance are often seen but they come from all areas. No one cares what your major was at that stage in your career. Many also come out of consulting firms.</p>
<p>You want to go to the best possible college to be a candidate for an elite executive training program or management consulting job and again, you can be any major.</p>
<p>This article is a bit dated (1995) but has some good information about CFO's academic profile:</p>
<p>CFOs:</a> a profile of unsung heroes.</p>
<p>This article mentions that 65% of the CFOs have graduate degrees. However, for those CFO's under 50, 75% had graduate degrees. This is a trend I think you will continue to see as more and more people become educated, a master's degree becomes more common place and often times more of a requirement. This doesn't reference an MBA per say but I'm assuming most had an MBA or a comparable degree. Some had a law degree. Only 15% indicated they had an academic background in finance. i would be interested to know how many had an accounting background.</p>
<p>In regards to being a CEO, there is no set major that will determine success. They most commonly come from the operations side of the business (COO) but also come from the marketing side (CMO) and finance side (CFO). It also depends on the company. If the company is a company where marketing is very important (ex: Procter and Gamble) then I would expect more to come from the Marketing side. In a bank, you would expect more to come from the finance side, in an IT company, from the technology side, and in an engineering company, from the operations side. However, there is no defined rule. It's just that some areas will take a backseat in the company to other areas depending on the criticality of that function.</p>
<p>Agree with hmom5 in regards to mgt consulting. On avg, that will put you on a much quicker track to the top than simply working for a Fortune 500 company and trying to work your way up internally.</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://www.bus.wisc.edu/news/0292.asp%5DWisconsin">http://www.bus.wisc.edu/news/0292.asp]Wisconsin</a> Ties Harvard in Producing Top CEOs</p>
<p>Barrons
Whery nice article but is it graduate or undergraduate school?It just says that those 2 colleges produce but when?</p>
<p>PS-its probably graduate right?Harvard doesnt have undergrad business.</p>
<p>I also checked college board for that university and they have around 26 Universities of Wisconsin.Can you give me full name of that college please?</p>
<p>I have to agree with some of the above posts. Getting to the CEO or CFO position requires A LOT of experience and by that time your degree will not matter at all. Education alone will not get you to that top position and I hope you realize this. It takes a lot more.</p>
<p>engineering</p>
<p>Not to mention... CEO or CFO of what? A startup? Middle Market? Blue Chip?</p>
<p>Also since we mentioned colleges...Bentley university.Anybody has any info on that college?I want to ED into that college but...so far i only know they give good eternships(srry of spelled wrong)but is it worth going undergrad full time into that college?Its ranked top 30 best undergrad schools</p>
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<p>It specifically states undergraduate.</p>
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<p>It specifically mentions that this was as of "April 18, 2008." It doesn't mention when they graduated.</p>
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<p>No.</p>
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<p>This is talking about entire undergraduate student bodies. Majoring in business is not a requirement to get into business.</p>
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<p>It is the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I wouldn't simply go to a school because it has produced a high number of CEOs though. In my eyes, this is simply an indicator that large quality state schools can produce excellent talent just as Ivy League schools do.</p>
<p>BTW, that article linked to the data it came from and more universities were named there.</p>
<p>most of the CFO has accounting degrees, CEO varies a lot, it used to be MBA, but it seems like nowadays MBA alone is just not enough</p>