HUMANITIES DEGREES
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 ### UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

 Humanities is a very unpopular subject. On average, each concentration hands out roughly 6,000 annual undergraduate degrees; 1,845 students earned a bachelor's degree in humanities last year, making it the United States of America's 155th most popular focus. [Seton Hall University](/colleges/seton-hall-university)​ handed out 171 of those degrees (#1 in the USA), and schools in New Jersey accounted for more degrees than any U.S. State (373).

 Undergraduate degrees in humanities are available at 248 schools in America; ipso facto, picking the right fit frequently isn't easy. Undergrad degrees in humanities are 29.2% more universally offered than the average subject, making it the 92nd most widely available area of study in the USA.

 ### GRADUATE DEGREES

 While 76% of last spring's degrees in humanities were bachelor's degrees; 24% were graduate degrees. Humanities is the 164th most popular postgraduate degree in America, with 585 degrees conferred. For context, the average subject is 4.7 times more popular among master's or doctor's students than humanities.

 In Total, 2,430 students received a bachelor's or higher in humanities last spring.

 ### ONLINE HUMANITIES DEGREES

 278 of those 2,430 students (11.4%) completed comprehensively online programs - 161 undergrads and 117 postgraduate students. As you likely can tell, it is fairly rare to find an American majoring in humanities online. It's the 103rd most in-demand remote degree, and 66.6% south of the national average of 481 students per subject. For postgraduate students, it's ranked 125th, and is 81% below the U.S. average (616).

  [Thomas Edison State University](/colleges/thomas-edison-state-university)​ conferred 131 online four-year degrees, more than any other institution in America.

 Additionally, New Jersey graduates more humanities online students than any other state (131 four-year degrees awarded last spring). On its own, New Jersey graduates 81% of America's online students.

 8.7% of all four-year degrees in humanities are completed exclusively remote, (20% for advanced degrees). [Thomas Edison State University's](/colleges/thomas-edison-state-university)​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of online humanities majors than any other institution in the USA (6.84%). 131 students in their 1,917 student class were conferred an online undergraduate degree in humanities. They offer 20 degrees totally remote, and had 9,475 enrolled online undergraduate students last fall. That's 99% of the student body.

 18 colleges in the country award undergraduate degrees in an exclusively online program, making it the 92nd most universally available online degree. 7% of institutions providing the degree even have an online option, and 67% of the institutions providing the degree remotely are private. Washington has more totally online programs than any state, with 2 institutions headquartered there.

 If you desire to study humanities and have the disposition for self learning, you may want to check out [Washington State University](/colleges/washington-state-university), as it has the 9th best humanities program in the United States. They also grant an additional 53 degrees fully remotely, so their systems are presumably strong. Further, there are 2,437 remote undergrad students attending, which is 9% of the entire student body.

 ### PARTIALLY ONLINE HUMANITIES DEGREES

 * Humanities is the 148th most in-demand partially online four-year degree in America
* 200 institutions around the nation have an undergraduate degree in humanities partially online
* 21.36% of all undergraduate degree in humanities are completed partially online
* [Florida State University](/colleges/florida-state-university)​ granted the most partially online four-year degrees in humanities in America (51)
* Last spring, 585 students earned advanced degrees in humanities partially online
* The typical area of study is available at close to 154 colleges partially online

 ### IN-PERSON HUMANITIES DEGREES

 * Humanities is the 156th most popular in-person undergrad degree in the USA
* Humanities is the 64th most broadly offered comprehensively in-person bachelor's degree across the country
* Last spring, 1,694 students earned a bachelor's or higher in humanities exclusively in-person
* 27.92% of [The King's College's](/colleges/the-king-s-college)​ last undergraduate class majored in humanities in-person, higher than any other US college
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* The typical major grants 1,836 annual postgrad degrees in-person


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2023 Humanities Popularity

There are about 166,070 students enrolled in Humanities in the USA.