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II-07b: Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Bachelor’s Degree Recipients, Selected Academic Fields

Data Source and Other Information

* The race/ethnicity categories are those the National Center for Education Statistics requires institutions to use when reporting students’ race/identity. For information on how institutions collect data on race/ethnicity from students and assign them to these categories, see https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data/race-ethnicity-collecting-data-for-reporting-purposes.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Data analyzed and presented by the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

About the Data

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares.

Related Indicators

For information on trends at the graduate level, see “Racial/Ethnic Representation Among Humanities Master’s Degree Recipients” and “Racial/Ethnic Representation Among Humanities Doctoral Degrees Recipients.”

For additional information on the demographics of students earning humanities bachelor’s degrees, see “Gender Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities.”

For historical trends in levels of bachelor’s degree completion, see “Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities.”

 For details as to the types of humanities degrees awarded and the nature of the institutions from which they are received, see “Disciplinary Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities” and “Institutional Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities.”

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