<p>Right, chrisw - I’m not surprised that finance/consulting (especially consulting) are appealing fields from graduates across many majors. I’m sure there are Yale art history majors and Brown anthropology majors that go into consulting.</p>
<p>What surprises me is the number - especially because Penn has expansive on-campus recruiting for non-finance/consulting firms. Yes communications majors, nursing school grads, and engineers could all go into consulting. At the same time, Penn provides more specific training and broader on-campus recruiting for these folks (nurses certainly can go look for jobs in nursing, Penn has a strong engineering program so its grads can be engineers, marketing firms recruit significantly at the communications school), but the finance/consulting % is still 27% of the employed grads.</p>
<p>It’s surprising because I’d think at schools like Yale and Brown, where there aren’t as many specialized schools and majors, finance/consulting would be even more popular than it is at Penn, where students are specifically trained for a wider range of professions.</p>
<p>Despite this, Yale has 17% in finance/consulting, Brown is at 20%, and Penn - including its engineering, nursing, communications, etc. schools/fields - is at 27%. Again, that number just seems a bit high to me, but maybe I’m missing something.</p>