<p>I looked at the NCES breakdown of Harvard degrees by concentration in (I think) 2013. The ratio was approximately 25% humanities, 35% STEM, and 40% social sciences. That doesn’t seem so awfully imbalanced. In my generation, the percentages for humanities and STEM were probably reversed, but no one was whining that math and science were dying at Harvard. (Engineering, on the other hand, had in fact died.)</p>
<p>That’s a very rough cut, however. I treated all History concentrators as humanities, including all History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine concentrators (and there were a bunch of those). I also treated all African and African-American Studies concentrators as humanities students, but if you look at the prize-winning theses in the department last year you get “Evaluation of a Service Provider Short Course for Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Reanalysis and 22-Month Follow-up Study” (a joint concentration with Statistics) and “Increasing the Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery in Rural Areas: A Case Study of Village Health Teams and Childhood Malnutrition in Rukungiri District, Uganda.” Which gives you a hint that Harvard humanities concentrators aren’t all contemplating their navels.</p>