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Anyone who is smart enough to calculate the differential of equations is smart enough to see there's little money in those jobs.

You see this in practice. STEM graduates do 3 things, in my experience. Work in management, work in IT, and work in academia. I wouldn't count on any of having up-to-date science knowledge except the academic ones.



Plenty of them with serious math chops, such as MIT EECS graduates, become quants in Wall Street and the like, at least for a while.


> Plenty of them

Wall Street does draw some students from the math/physics/EECS departments of the very top ranked schools, but this represents a tiny percentage of students graduating nationwide with STEM degrees.




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