[alephnerd]

First, how do you define "technical"?

An Petroleum Engineer, Materials Engineer, Industrial Engineer, Chemical Engineer, Biopharmaceuticals Researcher, etc will always have the option to work at an MBB, as those industries heavily use McK to help with their own businesses.

On top of that, McK hiring even at the undergrad level skews STEM. If you attend a feeder school like MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley, it's EECS/Applied Math/Physics majors that land Associate interviews, because management is much more technical now. McKinsey literally has recruiters devoted only to candidates from Berkeley and UMich Engineering for strategy roles.

It isn't the 1980s anymore when some random schmoe with an Econ or Business degree can land an MBB role anymore.

[lotsofpulp]

Yes, all of those would be technical. I did not know McK hiring skewed STEM.

[alephnerd]

Now take a look at MBA admissions for a top 20 program - 35-45% of undergraduate degrees tend to be STEM (primarily Engineering, with a bit of Math/Sciences)