Popular majors or areas where college students receive their bac

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I have pulled out graduation outcome data from a few major colleges.  These colleges are the ones this forum is most interested about.  This data is for Class 2019.  I compared a few schools for Class 2020.  The data is remarkably close for each program area.  One interesting phenomenon to see is how hot computer scicence major becomes for the top schools including IVYs.  I will post more for CS later.

We all know college admission officers try to form a well rounded class with the idea that some applicants will fill ceertain areas.  When college freshmen entering the colleges first time, they have all sorts of ideas what they want to study.  By the time they graduate, most are still attracted to certain pouplar programs. 

For MIT as an example, its top1 programs are in engineering, the top2 area is computer science and top3 program area is in Math & Stats.  it is not surprising.   What it is surprising is how concentrated the students are in pursuing their undergraudate studies.  MIT has 80% of their graduates majoring in the top 3 areas.

COLLEGES Top 1 Top 2 Top3 Top 1 Top 2 Top3 Total
               
Notre Dame Business Engineering Social Sci 29.8% 17.2% 10.2% 57.1%
USC Business Visual Art Social Sci 24.7% 12.4% 11.4% 48.4%
Northeastern Business Engineering Social Sci 24.6% 17.4% 12.1% 54.2%
Tulane Business Social Sci BioL & BioM 24.5% 15.8% 10.3% 50.5%
BostonU Business Com, Journal Social Sci 22.0% 14.9% 12.8% 49.7%
UPenn Business Social Sci BioL & BioM 19.6% 14.7% 10.6% 44.9%
Emory Business BioL & BioM Social Sci 19.5% 16.2% 14.9% 50.6%
WaShU Business Engineering Social Sci 14.5% 14.8% 13.1% 42.3%
Stanford Comp Sci Engineering MultiDis 18.8% 18.9% 15.1% 52.8%
MIT Engineering Comp Sci Math & Stat 39.3% 32.6% 7.8% 79.7%
Princeton Engineering Social Sci Biol & BioM 29.4% 18.2% 10.4% 58.0%
CMU Engineering Comp Sci Math & Stat 26.0% 12.3% 10.8% 49.2%
Rice Engineering Social Sci BioL & BioM 22.7% 15.1% 8.9% 46.7%
JHU Engineering BioL & BioM Social Sci 22.5% 17.9% 14.2% 54.6%
Cornell Engineering Business BioL & BioM 16.7% 14.4% 12.5% 43.6%
Rochester Engineering Social Sci Health Sci 16.3% 12.9% 12.4% 41.7%
Michigan Engineering Social Sci Comp Sci 15.9% 11.7% 10.7% 38.4%
Georgetown Social Sci Business MultiDis 37.6% 19.3% 7.6% 64.6%
Dartmouth Social Sci BioL & BioM Engineering 34.1% 9.0% 9.2% 52.2%
UChicago Social Sci Biol & BioM Math & Stat 33.8% 10.0% 9.3% 53.1%
Vanderbilt Social Sci Engineering MuiltDis 32.1% 15.9% 11.9% 59.9%
Harvard Social Sci Biol &BioM Math & Stat 31.2% 12.5% 10.2% 53.9%
Yale Social Sci Biol & BioM History 27.3% 10.7% 10.1% 48.1%
Columbia Social Sci Enginering Comp Sci 27.2% 15.9% 11.3% 54.5%
UCLA Social Sci BioL & bioM Psychology 26.4% 16.1% 11.0% 53.4%
Tufts Social Sci Engineering BioL & BioM 25.4% 12.6% 11.6% 49.6%
Berkeley Social Sci Engineering BioL & BioM 20.2% 10.8% 9.9% 40.9%
Northwestern Social Sci Com,Journal Engineering 18.9% 17.0% 16.1% 52.0%
Duke Social Sci BioL & BioM Engineering 18.8% 15.3% 15.4% 49.5%
Brown  Social Sci BioL & BioM Comp Sci 18.0% 10.8% 10.8% 39.7%
Virginia Social Sci Engineering Business 15.8% 12.6% 8.3% 36.6%
UNC-CH Social Sci BioL & BioM Com, Journal 14.0% 10.5% 10.9% 35.4%
NYU Visual Art Social Sci Business 18.4% 14.3% 13.3% 46.1%
NYU Visual Art Social Sci Business 18.4% 14.3% 13.3% 46.1%