The College Majors Most Likely To Marry Each Other

schnell writes: The blog Priceonomics has published an analysis showing students in which college majors end up marrying another student with that same major. Religious studies (with 21% of students marrying another studying the same field) tops the list among all students, followed by general science. Perhaps unsurprising is that some majors with gender disparities show a high in-major marriage rate among the less represented group — for example, 39% of women engineering majors marry a fellow student in their field, while among men 43% studying nursing and 38% studying elementary education do likewise. The blog concludes that your choice of major may unwittingly decide your choice of spouse, and depending on how well that field is paid, your economic future.

Comments

Gender Distribution?

[Edis Krad]

Seems to be this is more related with the gender distribution in each major more than anything else.
Engineering and sciences have a high percentage of males vs females. Therefore is logical to think that any woman in that field has a lot of possible partners to choose from.
The backwards can be said about Nursery. Mainly a female oriented vocation, any male nurse will have a rather large pool to select a partner from.
Seems pretty obvious, I 'unno...

Re:Gender Distribution?

[Anonymous Coward]

hey im a nurse so fuck u

Sorry I can't. I majored in IT.

Re:Question: With Computer Science being 90% male.

[mark-t]

Because computer science classes are not actually 90% male.... the actual figure is closer to 80%, depending on the institution. I believe the actual average number of male graduates from computer science is 82% in the USA.

Of course, that also suggests that computer science is an exceedingly likely place for a single woman who is interested enough in the field to have something in common with most of her peers in class is also quite likely to also find a mate. The exact opposite can be said for men.

This is anecdotal, but almost all of the women I knew while I was taking computer science eventually hooked up with someone else in class before graduation. I do not know how permanent those relationships were after graduation, however.