"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, humanities majors account for about 12 percent of recent graduates, and art history majors are so ra

"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, humanities majors account for about 12 percent of recent graduates, and art history majors are so rare they’re lost in the noise. They account for less than 0.2 percent of working adults with college degrees, a number that is probably about right for recent graduates, too. Yet somehow art history has become the go-to example for people bemoaning the state of higher education." From http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-06/postrel-how-art-history-majors-power-the-u-s- http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-06/postrel-ho.... See also https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1 https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505.... (Yes, I get that you're not talking about art history majors, per se, but I still think the sentiment is such that these are apt discussions to link to)