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Humanities at Yale University

Humanities at Yale University

What traits are you looking for in a humanities school? To help you decide if Yale University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's humanities program.

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and has a total student population of 12,060.

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

Yale Humanities Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities

Yale Humanities Rankings

The humanities major at Yale 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 Yale

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

Yale Humanities Bachelor’s Program

71% Women
35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 29% of humanities bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women.

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About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in humanities at Yale 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 Yale University with a bachelor's in humanities.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 11
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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 CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation Jobs in CT Average Salary in CT

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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