<p>JHS,</p>
<p>Here’s an article from Harvard Magazine from last year that addresses the question a little more precisely:</p>
<p><a href=“http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/06/reinvigorating-the-humanities”>http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/06/reinvigorating-the-humanities</a></p>
<p>Here’s a chart that breaks it out according to Harvard’s definitions (I’m unsure of the date, but the data goes through 2011):</p>
<p><a href=“http://harvardmagazine.com/375th/concentrations-chart-humanities”>http://harvardmagazine.com/375th/concentrations-chart-humanities</a></p>
<p>In Harvard’s opinion, humanities comprise 17% of the current undergraduate student body (or at least, through 2012 or thereabouts), although, if one throws history in with the humanities (Harvard counts it as a social science), then humanities concentrators comprise about 20%:</p>
<p>“Among the data-driven findings: the percentage of humanities concentrators fell during the last 60 years from 24 to 17 percent, dropping between 2003 and 2012 from 21 to 17 percent. When history concentrators are factored in (history is considered part of the humanities, although at Harvard it is technically in the division of social sciences), the decline in concentrators since 1954 is even more precipitous, falling from 36 to 20 percent of undergraduates.”</p>