Humanities at Columbia University in the City of New York

If you plan to study humanities, take a look at what Columbia University in the City of New York has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and approximately 30,135 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Humanities section at the bottom of this page.

Columbia Humanities Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities
• Master’s Degree in Humanities

Columbia Humanities Rankings

The humanities major at Columbia is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Humanities. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Humanities Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the humanities majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Humanities Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of humanities bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% more racial-ethnic minorities in its humanities bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in humanities.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	0
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Columbia Humanities Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of humanities master's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 36% men graduate in humanities each year. Columbia does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 14% more men than average.

Of the students who received a humanities master's degree from Columbia, 75% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a master's in humanities.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• General Studies
• Liberal Arts

Careers That Humanities Grads May Go Into

A degree in humanities can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Professors	6,440	$112,000

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.