Comment by michaelshoe

There are definitely assumptions involved in writing this piece:

My definition of "business degrees" were: Business(incl. biz mgmt/biz admin, etc.) + Accounting (11) + finance (5) = 32

"Engineering degrees" were: Everything with engineering in the name of the degree = 23

So for the time being, there are more CEOs with college business degrees than those with engineering degrees. If you separate accounting and finance from business, then the story is reversed.

However, I also did notice that the average age of the CEOs is 60 and the mean is 61; things may have changed now.

It will be interesting to see the backgrounds of some more recent founders of successful startup, etc.