From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: ...In 2025, the nation’s colleges and universities awarded 164,847 bachelor’s degrees in the humanities—the smallest number of degrees awarded since 1991 and 30.4% below the recent high-water mark in 2012... That decline includes a particularly sharp drop of 12.7% from 2021 to 2023, followed by a more modest drop of 2.1% from 2023 to 2024, and a further decline of just 0.4% from 2024 to 2025—the smallest year-on-year decline since 2012. The number of bachelor’s degrees conferred in the “historical categories” (disciplines with data going back to 1949) has been falling more quickly than for the field as a whole—with a decline of 42% from 2012 to 2025...
The share of bachelor’s degrees conferred by disciplines among the historical categories contracted to 3.4% of all degrees conferred in 2025—the smallest share in records extending back to 1949, and just under one-fifth of the share at their peak in 1967 (when they constituted 17.2% of all bachelor’s degrees awarded)...
Full report at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/09/10/report-humanities-majors-disappearing.
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