| taxguy,
But the USA Today article does give information about undergraduate education and supports the trend suggested, which is a good sign.
"In 1980, 14% of CEOs at Fortune 100 companies received their undergraduate degrees from an Ivy League school. By 2001, 10% of CEOs received undergraduate degrees at one of the eight Ivies: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. The percentage of CEOs with undergraduate degrees from public colleges and universities shot up from 32% in 1980 to 48% in 2001."
But you are correct about numbers. I doubt that the 8 Ivy League schools account for 10% of all college graduates, yet they account for 10% of top CEOs.
Note that this does not include other top schools, such as Stanford etc., or elite liberal arts colleges, such as Williams, Amherst etc.
It is hard to know, though, if those disproportionate numbers at Ivy League schools is the result of something that those schools provide, or does it tell more about the type of person who can actually get in and afford the school. |