IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE STUDY ENGINEERING

Students who study engineering in  university are more likely than their peers to become billionaires, a new study suggests.  As the telegraph reports , a new  analysis from the UK firm Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment finds that more of the top 100 richest people in the world (according to Forbes ) studied engineering than any other major.

The survey found that 75 of the 100 richest people in the world got some kind of four-year degree (though others, like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, attended a university but dropped out before graduation). Out of those who graduated, 22 of those billionaires received engineering degrees, 16 received business degrees, and 11 received finance degrees.

It found that the most common first job among the top billionaires – who started in an organisation that wasn’t their own, as opposed to entrepreneurs who started their own company or those employed in a family business – was that of a salesperson followed by a stock trader.

 

 

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