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Would be interesting to figure out # of CEOs divided by total student population for Ivys vs state schools. Since there are few Ivys I imagine the chance that
by jderick 18y ago
Would be interesting to figure out # of CEOs divided by total student population for Ivys vs state schools. Since there are few Ivys I imagine the chance that a student from an Ivy becomes a CEO is still greater.
- bd 18y agoExactly. While it's hard to get the exact figures (as CEOs graduated over a long time period), we can make at least some approximations. I just run quick numbers for the year 2007: 57,845 Ivy League undergraduate enrollment [1] 15,386,000 Total US undergraduate enrollment [2] Which makes Ivy League population just 3.76 promille of the total US undergraduates. Thus Ivy League gives you around 27x higher chance to be Fortune 500 CEO compared to what you would get if the selection was random. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_league [2] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2007/section1/table.asp?tableID=672 http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2007/section1/table.asp?tabl...