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II-23e: Percentage of All U.S. Master’s Degrees in the Humanities Awarded by Public versus Private Institutions,* 1987–2013

Data Source and Other Information

* Institutions have been categorized according to the IPEDs classification of institutional control. Percentages do not add up to 100% because of rounding and, for the 1987–1995 time period, 1% to 4% of institutions were of unknown institutional control.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Data System; accessed via the National Science Foundation’s online data system, WebCASPAR.

About the Data

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees.

Related Indicators

For information on trends at other degree levels, see “Institutional Distribution of Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities” and “Institutional Distribution of Doctoral Degrees in the Humanities.”

For historical trends in levels of humanities master’s degree completion, see “Advanced Degrees in the Humanities.” For the demographics of students earning master’s degrees in the humanities, see “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Master’s Degrees in the Humanities” and “Gender Distribution of Master’s Degrees in the Humanities.”

Other indicators pertaining to graduate education in the humanities can be found under the topics “Disciplinary Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities,” “Humanities Degree Completions: An International Comparison,” “Paying for Doctoral Study in the Humanities,” “Years to Attainment of a Humanities Doctorate,” and “Attrition in Humanities Doctorate Programs.”

For Humanities Departmental Survey findings relating to graduate education, see “Trends in the Demographics of Humanities Students: Key Findings from the 2012–13 Humanities Departmental Survey.”

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