The Chronicle sorted academic fields into categories based on the percentage of colleges in 1970-71 that offered the field. Out of core fields, which were offered by more than 50 percent of colleges, history was ranked with the second steepest decline at 10 percent reduction, following the 17 percent reduction of Romance languages. Of fields offered by 20 to 49 percent of colleges, Germanic languages and literatures decreased by 17.6 percent and home economics and consumer science decreased by 6.4 percent.
Out of the category of “niche fields,” which were offered by 5 to 19 percent of universities, administrative assistant and secretarial science decreased the most, from presence at 16.7 percent of colleges in 1971 to 1.2 percent of schools in 2006. Zoology was the second most declining field, with a 6.7 percent decrease.
The numbers were taken from the U.S. Department of Education; the National Center for Education Statistics; and Steven Brint, Kristopher Proctor, Kerry Mulligan, Matthew Rotondi and Robert Hanneman, the authors of “Declining Academic Fields in U.S. Four-Year Colleges and Universities, 1970-2006.”
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