S&P 500 CEOs are Engineering Graduates
Posted on June 30, 2008 Comments (3)
2007 Data from Spencer Stuart on S&P 500 CEO (they deleted the link so the link was removed – yet another website proves to be unreliable without basic web usability principles being followed) shows once again more have undergraduate degrees in engineering than any other field.
| Field |
|
% of CEOs | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | |||
| Engineering | 21 | 23 | 20 | ||
| Economics | 15 | 13 | 11 | ||
| Business Administration | 13 | 12 | 15 | ||
| Accounting | 8 | 8 | 7 | ||
| Liberal Arts | 6 | 8 | 9 | ||
| No degree or no data | 3 | 3 | |||
The report does not show the fields for the rest of the CEO’s. 40% of S&P CEOs have MBAs. 27% have other advanced degrees. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Princeton and Harvard tied for the most CEO’s with undergraduate degrees from their universities at 12. University of Texas has 10 and Stanford has 9.
Data for previous years is also from Spencer Stuart: 2006 S&P 500 CEO Education Study – Top degree for S&P 500 CEOs? Engineering (2005 study)
Related: Engineering Education Study Debate – posts on science and engineering careers – Science and Engineering Degrees lead to Career Success – The Future is Engineering
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July 18th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
Happy to note that engineering rules! My dad had one point written an article about thirty years ago titled “Engineers can manage; can managers engineer”. I was a young lad back then and have not read the complete article but the title itself speaks volumes. We need more engineering talent in the upper echelons of management. Thank you.
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