Humanities graduates are happy with their lives, survey says

Image:  Articles suggesting that humanities graduates are poor or unhappy are abundant. But the opposite is true. According to a 2019 Gallup poll cited in a new report by the Humanities Indicators Project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 90 percent of humanities graduates are happy with their lives, about the same as graduates of other fields. The report attempts to look at various data to answer why. “Data reveal that humanities graduates are similar to college...