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Number of Juniors and Seniors with Declared Major in English in HDS-1 Departments as of the Beginning of the Fall 2012 Term

Data Source and Other Information
* These values should not be compared directly with 2007 data since these data do not include any departments that have been created in the interim. These data can be interpreted as estimates of minima for all 2012–13 departments combined.
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.
About the Data
The 95% confidence interval for the change in average per department from 2007 data is provided in italics; the width of the interval indicates the uncertainty in the estimate. “No δ” indicates any change exhibited is not statistically significant.
Related Indicators
For context, see the overview of trends in students among all humanities disciplines, as well as the numbers across all disciplines from the HDS-1 population and the disciplines added with HDS-2. For more granular tabulations of the data for specific disciplines (typically providing numbers by Carnegie Classification type and institutional control), see the tables on juniors and seniors majoring in the disciplines of art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion); bachelor’s degrees (for art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion); and the number of students completing a minor in art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion.
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