Slight Decrease In US Philosophy Majors Continues

The number of students earning an undergraduate degree in philosophy in the United States declined for the third year in a row. According to new data from Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, US universities and colleges issued 5,763 bachelor’s degrees in philosophy in 2024, compared with 5,998 in 2023, 6380 in 2022, and 6,757 in 2021. [graph from Humanities Indicators. Original interactive version here.]Though the changes have been small from year to year, there has been a roughly 14.7% decrease in undergraduate philosophy degrees conferred between 2021 and 2024. During the same period of time, the share of all bachelor’s degrees that went to students majoring in any humanities fields dropped from 9.3% to 8.4%, a drop of around 9%. The full Humanities Indicators report is here.The post Slight Decrease In US Philosophy Majors Continues first appeared on Daily Nous.