Humanities at Harvard University

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

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 30,391 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.

Harvard Humanities Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities

Harvard Humanities Rankings

The humanities major at Harvard 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 Harvard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the humanities majors at Harvard University.

Harvard Humanities Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 37% of humanities bachelor's degrees went to men and 63% went to women.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in humanities at Harvard are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	10
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Related Majors

• Individualized 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 MA, the home state for Harvard University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA

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 Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.