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II-05b: Distribution of Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Completions among Disciplines, 1987–2018

* Excludes humanities degrees earned as “second majors.” For data on such degrees, see “Humanities Bachelor’s Degrees as a Second Major.”

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Integrated Postsecondary Data System. Data analyzed and presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares.

For an inventory of the specific degree programs that compose each of the humanities disciplines as they are conceptualized by the Humanities Indicators, see the Degree Program Code Catalog.

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