WSJ: "If you're a high math student in America... it's crazy to go into STEM"

[rheidzan]

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Whether you want to categorize quant finance within STEM, the point is that science and engineering careers don’t pay particularly well, relative to other careers that people with STEM degrees can obtain.

Not sure why you’re still beating a dead horse… but we all know the finance industry does pay more than others and there is nothing our society can do about it… </p>

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I think the real issue is that I still haven’t seen an actionable yet non-obvious pathway for non-CS STEM graduates to utilize to obtain such jobs. Again, that’s not a knock on globaltraveler, as I suspect that such a pathway doesn’t exist. And I do give credit to him for trying to find one.

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The vast majority of STEM graduates will never have the chance to work in finance or strategy consulting, either.

The actionable path for STEM graduates to have a chance to work in finance or strategy consulting does exist…
It’s anecdotal of course, but an ex-coworker went to USC and then got hired at oppenheimer then recently at deutsche bank as an associate.
My part time structural analysis professor from cal poly (also work for englekirk - a very well known structural engineering firm) went to INSEAD and got a job at mckinsey.</p>

<p>They both were young when they left (early 30s)…</p>