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The Right Degree to Become a Billionaire

A business-to-business buying platform called Approved Index has studied the list of 100 richest people in the world published by the Forbes magazine.

Based from the data they gathered, they found out that engineering graduates are the richest with an average wealth of 25.8 Billion US Dollars. They are followed by those who didn’t have a degree and their average net worth is 24 Billion US Dollars and the third spot was taken by those who studied finance with an average net worth of 22.5 Billion US Dollars.

Bill Gates, the richest person in the world whose fortune is around $79bn, is a known drop out of Harvard as well as the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest person to be included in Forbes’ top 100 with a $33.4bn net worth.

Bill Gates, the richest person in the world whose fortune is around $79bn, is a known drop out of Harvard as well as the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest person to be included in Forbes’ top 100 with a $33.4bn net worth.

Here’s the list of average wealth by degree published by Approved Index:
Engineering ($25.77bn)
None ($24.03bn)
Business ($22.5bn)
Economics ($22.1bn)
Arts ($20.51bn)
Other ($19.66bn)
Math ($17.75bn)
Finance ($15.83bn)
Law($13.2bn)
Science ($12.08bn)

Vocabulary Enhancement:

Gather – come together; assemble or accumulate
Wealth – an abundance of valuable possessions or money
Net worth – is the total assets minus total outside liabilities of an individual or a company
Fortune – a large amount of money or assets
Drop out – abandon a course of study

(Source: http://newsarticle.gge.co.jp/)

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