<p>the 10-20% is a number that comes from the graduate student survey that is completed each year. publicly cce usually just mentions that finance is the number one potential career path for students usually followed by things like education, law, consulting, engineering, IT and medicine. but if you go in to a counseling session, they say almost verbatim the 10-20% number when talking about finance (or at least i should say they used to when i was around).</p>