A nice profile of the Department’s successful undergraduate program; an excerpt:

Since the 2005-2006 academic year, the number of Arts and Humanities concentrators of all kinds at Harvard has decreased by 12.6 percent overall, according to data from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and some of the biggest concentrations have shrunk by more than half. Students studying English have dwindled from 276 to 117 in that period, with course enrollments down by 60 percent. History and Literature concentrators are down by 38 percent, Comparative Religion by 60 percent.

Philosophy, though, has more than doubled in size during that time. It is now the largest of Harvard’s Arts and Humanities fields, with 150 primary and joint philosophy concentrators as of 2025. That’s much smaller than Economics (953) and Government (589), the most popular University concentrations, but proportional to student body size, it’s about 10 times the national average.

(Thanks to Cheyney Ryan for the pointer.)