Most popular majors at ivy league schools

With many of the country’s best and brightest split among eight universities, let’s explore the most popular majors among students at Ivy League schools.

Which are different from Ivy Park, where everyone majors in either Who Run the World, Women’s Studies at the School of In Formation.

Among the eight Ivy League universities, which include Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Dartmouth, economics was one of the top three majors at seven out of the eight schools, with Cornell as the outlier.

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Guess kids really got into that 'Econ and Me' video in the fifth grade.

According to Business Insider, computer science was a top three pick at Brown, Harvard and Princeton, while government, political science and biology were other top picks.

It may be kind of moot since a 2013 study estimated that little more than a quarter of college grads worked a job closely tied to their major, but the Ivy League picks are in line with recent data from the National Center of Education.

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The center found that the most popular majors for a bachelor’s degree were related to business, health, social sciences, history, psychology and biology.

But not English or philosophy? Oh, the humanities.

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