The State of the Humanities: Higher Education 2015
Associate鈥檚 Degree Completions in Selected Fields as a Percentage of All Associate鈥檚 Degree Completions, 1987鈥2013

While recent years have seen a decline in the number of graduates earning humanities degrees at four-year colleges and universities, at the community-college level, the share of associate鈥檚 degrees earned in a humanities discipline or requiring a substantial amount of humanities coursework鈥攁 degree in liberal or general studies, for example鈥攊ncreased in 2012 and 2013 (the most current years for which data are available). In these years, the humanities鈥 share of all associate鈥檚 degrees was almost four times as large as the field鈥檚 share of all bachelor鈥檚 degrees, evidence that two-year institutions are a key element of the humanities higher education ecosystem.