Abstract
The humanities play an important role at every kind of institution. Approximately 40 percent of all undergraduate humanities degrees come from large research universities, where they account for about 15 percent of all bachelor's degrees. The United States stands in the top third of the percentage of degrees awarded in the humanities and the arts internationally, ranking with Germany and Denmark. English remains the dominant major, producing about a third of all bachelor's degrees in the humanities, followed by general humanities and liberal studies with 26 percent, and history with 18 percent.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2009
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2009 by Edward L. Ayers, published by the MIT Press.
This article first appeared in Daedalus: 138, no. 1 (2009), 24-34.
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Recommended Citation
Ayers, Edward L. "Where the Humanities Live," Daedalus 138:1 (Winter 2009), pp. 24-34.