In general, technical schools, private schools tend to be more concentrated in these 6 majors, i.e. majors that can make lots of money. Public schools have more diverse offerings in their programs with lower percentage of top 6 majors. The top half of the tables are mostly private schools including the techical schools such as Caltech, MIT and GTech. The lower half of the table are mostly public schools.
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Total percentages of top 6 majors
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Caltech |
75.85% |
MIT |
69.87% |
GTech |
62.40% |
Emory |
58.92% |
UChicago |
57.50% |
Duke |
53.46% |
CMU |
53.40% |
Wake Forest |
52.85% |
Boston C |
52.67% |
Dartmouth |
51.67% |
Vanderbilt |
51.06% |
W & M |
50.50% |
UVA |
50.47% |
JHU |
50.18% |
Tufts |
48.88% |
Stanford |
47.85% |
Princeton |
47.63% |
Rochester |
47.38% |
Columbia |
47.37% |
Georgetown |
47.33% |
UNC CH |
46.93% |
Tulane |
46.61% |
Northeastern |
46.22% |
Harvard |
45.62% |
Boston U |
44.08% |
UCSB |
43.92% |
UPenn |
43.91% |
Yale |
43.03% |
Brown |
42.23% |
UC Irvine |
40.83% |
USC |
40.70% |
NYU |
39.30% |
CWRU |
39.02% |
Cornell |
38.78% |
Notre Dame |
38.57% |
Rice |
37.37% |
Michigan |
36.97% |
Berkeley |
36.90% |
UCLA |
36.75% |
NWU |
36.42% |
UC Davis |
34.29% |
UCSD |
34.21% |
Maryland CP |
33.57% |
WaSHU |
32.88% |
UW Madison |
27.45% |
UIUC |
25.78% |
UW Seattle |
25.36% |
UT Austin |
25.19% |
UFlorida |
24.48% |
Purdue |
23.44% |