Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Completions as a Percentage of All Bachelor’s Degree Completions, by Control of Institution, 1987–2013

At the four-year level, private not-for-profit colleges and universities have traditionally conferred a larger portion of their degrees in the humanities than have their public counterparts. That began to change in the 1990s, when the share of degrees awarded by private and public not-for-profit institutions at the baccalaureate level began to converge. Since 2003, the shares have differed by less than one percentage point and have experienced a parallel decline.