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Institutional Distribution of Master’s Degrees in the Humanities

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The bulk of master’s degrees in the humanities are conferred by institutions classified in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education as very high research universities. The data also reveal that private colleges and universities have begun to confer a larger share of the graduate humanities master’s degrees in recent years.

II-23a: Distribution of 2013 Humanities Master’s Degree Completions among Carnegie Institution Types*

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* Institutions have been categorized using the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Basic Classification of college and university types. Percentages do not add up to 100% due to rounding.

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.

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees. For a detailed explanation of the types of institutions in each category, see the Classification Descriptions on the site maintained by Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research.

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* Institutions have been categorized using the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Basic Classification of college and university types.

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.

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees. For a detailed explanation of the types of institutions in each category, see the Classification Descriptions on the site maintained by Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research.

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* Institutions have been categorized using the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Basic Classification of college and university types.

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.

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees. For a detailed explanation of the types of institutions in each category, see the Classification Descriptions on the site maintained by Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research.

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* Institutions have been categorized using the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Basic Classification of college and university types.

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.

See the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Humanities Degree Counts and Shares and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees. For a detailed explanation of the types of institutions in each category, see the Classification Descriptions on the site maintained by Indiana University’s Center for Postsecondary Research.

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* 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.

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* Institutions have been categorized according to the IPEDs classification of institutional control.
** Due to substantial year-to-year changes in the share of degrees awarded for-profit institutions, it was not possible to display the percentages for the 1978–1993 time period. For these values, please see the supporting table.

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.

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