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| English: The Humanities Center on the sixth floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Turns out Humanities is the only part of a university that actually turns a profit. Humanities students are also a gold mine for the society that funds their production, because we are so much cheaper to train, and start out at lower wages, but over the course of a lifetime we get paid as much overall as sciences grads, and therefore pay as much in taxes. So there's a huge net profit to the society over time, and the university even while it's training us.
But university administrations and/or their corporate/political masters continue to think that we're the weak sisters, the luxury.
