The share of master’s and doctoral degrees awarded in the humanities in 2020 hit a record low, according to a new report released today by the Humanities Indicators Project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The report uses federal data to provide a data-driven look at the state of graduate education in the humanities, including graduate-degree trends, career outcomes, the state of the professoriate, and the lack of diversity in the field.
“To see the share of our degrees falling to levels I’ve never seen before,” said Robert B. Townsend, co-director of the Humanities Indicator Project, “that was really surprising.”
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