> And look at their current Economics electives - https://economics.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/e... - which, if you're going into finance, consulting, public policy, or political ideology, look great. But if you want to understand or manage a real-physical-world company? Maybe Econ 1745 - "Corporate Finance" would be useful?

A pure Econ degree doesn't put you on management or leadership tracks in most companies.

Most are practitioners who were sponsored by their employer to attend an MBA, or were recruited out of college for an LDP (eg. Abbvie and UIUC CS/Biotech, Danaher and CMU MechE, P&G and CMU/UMich/OSU/UIUC ChemE/MechE).

The employment stats you provided aren't anymore different from similar peer programs with an Engineering bias like UC Berkeley [0], UCLA [1], or UW [2].

Finance, High Tech, and Consulting are always the trifecta for high paying white collar jobs no matter which program you attend.

I think you have this weird notion or stereotype that it's only "HAHVAD" grad that run the world like an evil cabal. In reality, there are plenty of equally selective public schools with similar outcomes and that have a similar impact (eg. The ones I listed above).

[0] - https://career.berkeley.edu/employers/learn-about-the-campus...

[1] - https://admission.ucla.edu/explore/student-outcomes

[2] - https://careers.uw.edu/outcomes/