The Most Popular College Majors For America’s Billionaires | Forbes

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban took night classes at the University of Pittsburgh as a high school junior when he wasn’t allowed to take an economics class for high school seniors.

At Indiana University, Cuban says he took MBA classes as a freshman until school officials “pushed him back to undergrad” when they realized he was 18 and “had never applied to be there.” He eventually graduated with a general business degree.

Others who were business majors include Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Walmart heir Jim Walton.

That makes it the most popular undergraduate degree of America’s richest, but only by a slim margin — economics and engineering ranked a close second and third. Fifty-eight Forbes 400 members majored in economics. The field’s wealthiest alumni include hedge fund investor, New York Mets owner and University of Pennsylvania grad Steve Cohen; the bitcoin billionaire twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who rowed crew at Harvard; and Charles Schwab, founder of the eponymous brokerage firm. Schwab overcame his dyslexia to graduate from Stanford. And 55 chose engineering, including former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who topped this year’s list, studied both engineering and computer science.

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[twinklearora]

If something works for someone it doesn't automatically guarantee that it will also work for you.

[adilisme]

65 Business
58 Economics
55 Engineering
22 Politics & Government
18 Mathematics

[Pointlessparodys]

Computer Science is still an emerging field. In 20-30 years this list is going to look a lot different

[intifadayuri]

So the rule of thumb is: when you'e born in a rich family your chances of getting richer gets exponentially bigger

[fakeapplestore]

That’s because many of the dropouts are computer Science majors

[bldjln]

That’s actually really cool - going to MBA courses as a Freshman.

[Romo]

If you think about it, these majors are very popular regardless of entrepreneurs there are, these two whenever you apply are competitive degrees with thousands of applicants, but thats they're pretty usefull

[nomansland]

Engineering and MBA’s comes to mind before watching

[kerul]

Political science
Economics
Computer science
Bussiness degree
MBA degree
Engineering
Math degree
General bussiness degree

[nycto]

Economics, Business are always BEST things to do! They are highly versatile combines everything from psychology to law, from politics to technology etc and applies in real world.

[Jake-mcte]

I wonder how many of those inherited wealth, as in their parents pushed them into a basic business degree. just food for thought

[kanishksharma]

Now tell the majors of *self-made* billionaires not all billionaires

[HeWhistlesTunes]

It’s really intelligence acceptance. Someone who doesn’t understand military will find out the hard way

[ksjb]

Economics for the win, Graduated with my Econ degree in December 2022 🎉

With that being said, make sure to take extra classes in stats, math, and computer programming to be competitive out here 😅

[mr.j]

I think the whole “college is useless” thing most entrepreneurs sell isn’t true. It all depends on where you go, in state vs out of state, and if you major in something useful.

[OhNoNotAgain]

Engineering will ALWAYS be best. Engineering is not a pure science. It’s about multi disciplinary problem solving. Science, law, economics, psychology, etc. Just like real life.

[kunalketkar]

Wow this is soo unexpected for billionaires to have business backgrounds... Forbes coming in with such revelations is amazing keep it up ❤️

[Mehranpathanoo]

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."✊✊💪💪

[jocelynlin]

You better give us a list of top 10 best business/economic colleges

[samlawaniunscripted]

Mark Zucks studied Computer science and psychology before he dropped out. And guess what, computer science is part of Engineering. Thats where software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning came from