Not a technical degree- but very relevant for both Wall Street and Main Street-- just a good old fashioned major in Applied Math. Whether from a research university, a Liberal Arts college-- anything with academic rigor.
Someone who has worked with large datasets and is proficient with R, STATA, Matlab or similar- they don’t need to have a content-based technical skill to be a strong contributor right off the bat. I know “data science” sounds fancier than plain vanilla statistics… but vanilla works too, and is available at a much broader range of colleges! Kids slice the bologna WAY too thin…