The bulk of master’s degrees in the humanities are conferred by institutions classified in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as very high research universities. The data also…

The racial and ethnic categories used for these indicators are those employed by the collector of the data, the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). For details, see https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data/race-ethnicity…

Career outcomes for recipients of a terminal master’s degree in the humanities (i.e., people whose highest degree is a master’s in a humanities discipline) have been a subject of considerable interest to graduate faculty and disciplinary societies for many years. As the…

Over the past 15 years, the purpose of the humanities master’s degree has been a subject of interest for the field’s disciplinary societies. In 2011, a Modern Language Association committee noted “a gap between students’ aspirations and employment outcomes on the one…

In contrast to their high rate of job satisfaction , graduates with a terminal master’s degree in the humanities (i.e., individuals whose highest degree is a master’s in a humanities discipline) have substantially lower median earnings than graduates from most other…