Do analyst programmes look specifically for finance/accounting majors?

Seeing as the general consensus is lots of PE shops have ‘less rigorous’ training programmes compared to IB, is it unfavourable to come from a major outside of finance/accounting e.g. Maths or CS? Or do they assume knowledge of finance/accounting from past internships or self-learning (tested in an interview of course)?

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