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Please explain what you’re defining as “the humanities,” because it appears you’re excluding the vast majority of the B.A. majors.

What does Stanford have that offers the same sense of community as the residential colleges and eating clubs at Princeton?   I’ve heard mixed reviews on the sense of community in the “neighborhoods” and it appears the administration has disbanded some of the traditional social organizations on campus.

https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/13/stanfords-war-on-social-life/[/quote]

The humanities as typically defined include literature, history, art history, philosophy, religion, and the fine and performing arts.   There are many non-humanities majors that receive the BA--for example, all the social sciences. [/quote]

OK. That's a fairly narrow range of majors - about 17% at Princeton. The decline in the number of English majors is noticeable but I doubt the total percentage of "Humanities" majors (so defined) has ever been much higher than 20% since Princeton had an engineering school.  CS/Engineering account for about 33% of majors, and then you have the remaining 50% spread out over Architecture, Area/Ethnic Studies, Biological Sciences, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Psychology, Public Policy, and Social Sciences.

None of the majors are so dominant as to keep other departments from thriving, and students in smaller departments in the humanities and liberal arts may get more attention that CS/Engineering students.  There have been complaints that the CS/Engineering students now set the tone at the school, but that seems to be largely a reflection of the fact that their majors are more demanding.  Those majors are also demanding at other schools, tempered only by the possibility that the peer groups may not be as strong.

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