<p>@ucbalumnus, I think you provided a survey that showed me that biology and maybe chemistry grads don’t do so well financially as there is an oversupply, no? So, I think we agree that STEM ex-biology and maybe chemistry tend to be better for meeting the OP’s needs than English or History.</p>
<p>I agree that financial firms (hedgies, i-banks, PE) and strategy consulting (a small subset of management consulting) focus on the very top schools. I would guess that if we said we were giving the OP advice, we would say, on average field matters more than school (in the top few tiers) because the numbers of elite students heading into finance or strategy was small compared to the total number of students. Is that not correct?</p>