The study of intergenerational mobility has long been a core concept of social science. Even in countries with relatively high income mobility like Sweden, an individual’s social origin is a key determinant for their socio-cultural destination. This paper goes beyond the intergenerational transmission of years of schooling to study how occupations are inherited through field of study specialization in university. Swedish children are often three times more likely than the average child to attain the degree that their parent holds. To estimate how much of this association is caused by the choices of the parent, I employ a regression discontinuity design to study the choices of individuals who applied to Swedish universities between 1977 and 1999 and evaluate if their enrollment in fields increase the probability that their children later study the same topic. I find strong causal influence, with children being 50–150% more likely to enroll and graduate in a field studied by their parents. The effect is positive for most specializations, but varies substantially in size, with medicine, business, law, and engineering showing some of the largest effects. Children are twice as likely to follow their fathers, and the effect increases substantially with the earnings and competitiveness of the field.