<p>22% solely from Engineering!!! Only at 301-400 tier, BA is 2% higher than engineering. </p>
<p>People who did Business administration in the 1-100 was 1% lower than the engineering’s. That shows engineering dominates in the research. </p>
<p>Now let’s take a look at the “Most Common Undergraduate Universities (by S&P 500 category)”
The top 100 are from Harvard, Stanford, Yale, U. of North Carolina - 3% each
Note that Harvard didn’t have engineering school until 2005 I believe.
I will assume that the numbers of business administration and economy from Harvard is more than engineering. In fact, there should be no engineering CEO from Harvard.</p>
<p>Next we see that among the top 100, only 3% of CEOs are from Harvard. That’s being said, no engineering background from Harvard at all.</p>
<p>Although the next data shows that the top 100 earned undergraduate from IVYs (Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc) is 9%, which is very small number, from the previous two conditions, we should conclude that the 9% includes a significant amount of engineering background CEO. If we minus the percentage of Harvard CEO (which is not shown in the study), then the rest should either be business or engineering, as liberal art and accounting are minority in the top 100.</p>
<p>If we combine accounting with business, as well as economy major, and make it as “business major”, the number is definitely higher. But don’t forget none of them beats engineering. </p>
<p>In essence, engineering is very high in percentage among the CEO.</p>
<p>Not majority, when you combine accounting, economy with BA, and make them into “business majors”.
But also consider the numbers of technical companies in the S&P 500.</p>