The world’s top economists just made the case for why we still need English majors

Monday, October 21, 2019 - 10:35

English majors are down 25.5 percent since the Great Recession, just as world’s top economists say we need more ‘storytellers'

A great migration is happening on U.S. college campuses. Ever since the fall of 2008, a lot of students have walked out of English and humanities lectures and into STEM classes, especially computer science and engineering.

English majors are down more than a quarter (25.5 percent) since the Great Recession, according to data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. It’s the biggest drop for any major tracked by the center in its annual data and is quite startling, given that college enrollment has jumped in the past decade.. . . .

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