if you are looking to be the 1 percenter you will have the best gods of getting there in pharmaceuticals check cal engineering and economics. much slimmer with health, literature or ethnic or civilization studies. english lit make 48 thousand a year in the middle of their career and own make up one-tenth of a percent of the country's top one percent earners. as for what career is most likely to land you at the top that would be wall street lawyers. 1 in 3 are in the one percent. that's better odds than if you are a ceo. >> how much are have those changed or what extent have they changed? >> depends on what you are looking at. one of the most interesting things in this study is actually the look at whether or not college is worth it. as college gets more and more expensive despite the fact that on average grads are making double if you look at education majors over the course of the career they are making 180,000