Here's the raw size of all the fields (just BAs). The downtick in cultural, ethnic, and gender studies is notable--those had been the only fields *not* to get pulled down by the collapse of humanities majors. Also sharper-than normal drops in English, Comp Lit, languages... pic.twitter.com/cbecOnl8Ls
— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) August 23, 2022
Here's the slightly longer term shifts from 2011-2021. The total outlier of computer science's explosion is really clear here: so is the concentration of growth in fields that have clear career prospects. pic.twitter.com/Pq5nuZveqH
— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) August 23, 2022
The downtick in humanities this year pushes up the ETA for when CS is larger than all humanities degrees together to one of the classes currently in college. pic.twitter.com/muaYNhDIe4
— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) August 24, 2022
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