The Decline Of Humanities Majors In Four Easy Charts

A story at the Atlantic magazine explains the decline in students choosing to major in the humanities at U.S. colleges and universities. Mostly, however, the raw data in the four charts below, tells the story.

Of course, some of the humanities, especially "Classics" (i.e. the study of ancient Latin, ancient Greek, and the related history and culture and literature of those eras) had declined to almost nothing much, much earlier, despite being the dominant academic discipline in the early 18th century colleges and universities in the United States.