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In addition to meeting the need for data on humanities faculty, the HDS was created to provide a deeper understanding of the student population. In recent years, the news media have focused a considerable amount of attention on the trend in the number of undergraduates earning humanities degrees. This survey rounds out that story with new estimates of enrollment in undergraduate classes, as well as the number of declared majors, completed minors, and degree recipients. (For the long-term trend in the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees, please see the HI’s main indicator set at /humanities-indicators/higher-education/bachelors-degrees-humanities). The survey also asked departments about a range of practices related to their undergraduate students, such as benchmarking requirements for majors. The findings for benchmarking are presented in this section. Information on other ways departments serve undergraduates, including workforce preparation and professional training, is provided in Section 5 of the report.

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Analysis of change over time in the median value for each discipline was not conducted as part of this study.

* Students who enrolled in more than one course in the discipline were counted in each course in which they enrolled.
** A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and in languages and literatures other than English (LLE).

For the values underlying this figure: See Table 10 in the Appendix, Part A.

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Analysis of change over time in the median value for each discipline was not conducted as part of this study.

* Interpret with caution; the standard error is more than 25% of the estimate.
** A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and in languages and literatures other than English (LLE).

For the values underlying this figure: See Tables 9a and b in the Appendix, Part A.

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* For several disciplines, the estimates should be interpreted with caution because the standard error is more than 25% of the estimate. In other cases, there were too few respondents to provide a reliable estimate of change from 2011–12 (or Fall 2012 for juniors and seniors). Please see Table 9a in the Appendix for details.
** A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and in languages and literatures other than English (LLE).

For the values underlying this figure: See Tables 9a and b in the Appendix, Part A.

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* No changes since HDS 2 (of the sort presented in Figure 4A for the average number of degree recipients and majors) were calculated as part of this study.
** A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and in languages and literatures other than English (LLE).

For the values underlying this figure: See Tables 9a and 9b in the Appendix, Part A.

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* A combined department is one that grants degrees in English and in languages and literatures other than English (LLE).

For the values underlying this figure: See Table 12 in the Appendix, Part A.

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