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Indicator III-8
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Career Paths for Specific Disciplines
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Drawing on the SHD (for more information on this discontinued data
collection program, see Indicator III-7,
Occupations of Humanities Ph.D.’s),
the figures in this indicator
depict the fields of employment of Ph.D.’s in selected humanities disciplines
(see Figure III-8a for Music, Figure III-8b for Philosophy, Figure III-8c for Classics, Figure III-8d for English,
Figure III-8e for Modern Languages and Literatures, Figure III-8f for History, and Figure III-8g for Art History).
The distributions are presented in separate figures to allow for the fact that in certain disciplines, substantial
numbers of Ph.D.’s are employed in professions that are uniquely associated with those disciplines; in the case of art history,
for example, 14.5% of Ph.D.’s were employed as curators. Apart from such distinctions, each discipline for which data are presented
had a majority of doctoral recipients who were employed as postsecondary faculty in 1995. This majority was largest for philosophy
and foreign languages (approximately 64% in both cases) and smallest for history and art history (58% and 56%).
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