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State of the Humanities 2022: From Graduate Education to the Workforce

Distribution of Graduate Humanities Degree Holders across Employment Sectors, by Level of Highest Degree, 2019

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Distribution of Graduate Humanities Degree Holders across Employment Sectors, by Level of Highest Degree, 2019


Viewed by the sector in which they are employed, recipients of master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees look rather different, but academic employment was significant for both of them. As of 2019, approximately 20% of employed terminal master鈥檚 degree recipients from the humanities and 70% of doctoral degree recipients worked in higher education. Industry/business was also a substantial employer of those with terminal master鈥檚 degrees in the humanities (with 45% of degree recipients in that sector). Approximately a tenth of humanities PhDs were employed in this sector, with a similar share working in government.13

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  • 13Ibid. Jobs in 鈥渁cademia鈥 are those in higher education. K鈥12 education jobs are included in the 鈥済overnment鈥 category.