What undergraduate education do PE firms look for?

When looking at BBs/EBs, I noticed there are a lot of Maths grads. When looking at PE firms, there are literally no maths grads - only economics/finance.

Do PE firms favour these degrees, or is it just a case of Maths grads not being interested?

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Subject doesn't matter for PE - it's basically an extension of banking where you're just an Excel monkey and need business acumen - none of which you need a degree in. 

PE undergrad recruiting hasn't been around for long enough to have a robust sample to see significant factors, but no reason to believe they would look for different degrees than the typical IB recruiting pipeline. Only caveat I can think of is that, for IB on-cycle, group strength and deal experience can play a role, but for undergrad recruiting you don't have those. So you can reasonably expect them to look into other aspects more seriously, but then still no reason to believe that you need to study certain subjects because PE is just monkey business

 
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