<p>^ Yes, I get that. Billionaire Chicago alum Joe Mansueto (A.B. '78), founder and CEO of investment research company Morningstar, donated a tidy $25M for his alma mater to build the new library named in his honor ([Overview](<a href=“The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library - The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library - The University of Chicago Library”>The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library - The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library - The University of Chicago Library)</a>). The University is lucky to have alumni like him.</p>
<p>But 40% going to banking, finance and consulting seems awfully high to me. That was the peak reached at Harvard in 2007. Evidently it seemed high to some people in a position to do something about it, too.</p>
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Harvard President Drew Faust … has received attention nationwide for her preoccupation with the vocational direction of todays college graduates. Her September article for the New York Times, Crossroads: The Universitys Crisis of Purpose, focused on the disproportionate number of students at Harvard and at other universities who enter finance and business instead of jobs in public service. When asked how universities could encourage students to enter other professions, President Faust responded, First, to develop paths of recruitment and job placement in other areas so students can see other paths clearly marked
[Another] part is trying to identify careers and make them visible.<a href=“%22The%20Siren%20Call%22,%20Harvard%20Crimson,%20December%2020,%202009”>/quote</a></p>