29% of MIT's graduating class goes into finance. http://www.questbridge.org/cmp/partner_schools/mit/academics.html http://www.questbridge.org/cmp/partner_schoo

29% of MIT's graduating class goes into finance. http://www.questbridge.org/cmp/partner_schools/mit/academics.html http://www.questbridge.org/cmp/partner_schools/mit/academics... I'm sure a large number of those graduates would still work in a non-engineering field if the finance industry didn't exist, but I think that a) a substantial fraction of them would go into engineering, and b) an even more substantial fraction would at least be doing something that creates wealth. I guess we'll see next year; I don't imagine finance will be a major destination for several years to come.