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Surprise: Humanities Degrees Provide Great Return on Investment

11/20/2014

 
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Humanities degrees are rarely praised for their practicality. Indeed, numerous policy leaders, and even President Obama, routinely push STEM fields. The perceived earnings picture for graduates of the humanities is usually thought of as even more bleak. This is hardly the case, however, according to Forbes’s Jeffery Dorfman. In fact, English, French, history, philosophy, and political science graduates have an average return of about 300-700% on their college investment. 
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