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II-03d: Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Completions, by Discipline, 1987–2022

Data Source and Other Information

Source: Office of Education/U.S. Department of Education: Survey of Earned Degrees; Higher Education General Information System; and Integrated Postsecondary Data System. Data analyzed and presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

About the Data

All data since 1987 have been tabulated using the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). For an explanation of the advantages of using the CIP to tally humanities degree completions, see the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares.

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

 

Related Indicators

For the demographics of students earning humanities bachelor’s degrees, see “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities” and “Gender Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities.”

For details as to the types of humanities bachelor’s degrees awarded and the nature of the institutions awarding them, see “Disciplinary Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities” and “Institutional Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities.”

For information on trends at the graduate level, see “Advanced Degrees in the Humanities.”

For the most recent Humanities Departmental Survey findings relating to undergraduate education, see “3. Undergraduate Students.”

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