Another intriguing one from Maps on the Web:
Have you ever wondered what the world’s richest people studied in college?If you guessed that many of them have degrees in business or economics, you’re right. But there is actually a surprising amount of diversity in the types of degrees that today’s wealthiest individuals hold.We dug into the data in order to create these maps to show the college degrees of each country’s richest person:
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Click through for each continent – but here’s North America (click on title of post):
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Fun fact: Canada’s richest guy, David Thompson (at $37.5 billion), is one of only two of the billionaires with a history degree. Not sure what to conclude about him, Canada or billionaires.
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