Quartz The 2008 financial crisis completely changed what majors students choose The humanities were humming along prior to 2008, according to an analysis by the Northeastern University historian Benjamin Schmidt.
Quartz The 2008 financial crisis completely changed what majors students choose The humanities were humming along prior to 2008, according to an analysis by the Northeastern University historian Benjamin Schmidt. Over the previous decade, disciplines like history, philosophy, English literature, and religion were either growing or holding steady as a share of all college majors. But in the decade after the financial crisis, all of these majors took […]