Snap Inc. employees are the most likely to have a master’s degree — over 36 percent of jobs at the social media company require one. (For perspective, just 9.3 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have a masters degree.)
With such a small percentage of Americans holding the degrees that companies like Google and Snap are looking for, many Silicon Valley CEOs are trying to make schools more like start-upsthat will train the workforce they’d like to hire. Marc Benioff, Reed Hastings and Mark Zuckerberg are all spending millions to shake up the American education system and increase computer science training in schools.
Check out the infographic below to see what degree you’ll need in order to qualify for a job at the biggest tech companies: