<p>Does anyone know how many undergraduate students major in econ each year? Or how many students graduate with a bachelor's degree in econ each year? Cann't find this infomation online.</p>
<p>Here’s a table as of end of December 2004-2008:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter3/economics.html]Economics[/url”>http://webdocs.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/ugrad_handbook/current/chapter3/economics.html]Economics[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Economics</p>
<p>2004 - 686
2005 - 686
2006 - 733
2007 - 769
2008 - 742</p>
<p>Economics + another field </p>
<p>2004 - 39
2005 - 40
2006 - 37
2007 - 22
2008 - 17</p>
<p>Is that the total number of economics concentrators in the college or is that the number of concentrators per graduating class?</p>
<p>^ The numbers are too large to be for a single graduating class.</p>
<p>“Number of Concentrators as of December”</p>
<p>Yes, this is for the whole college. To get a rough idea of how many per year, you would divide by three (as students don’t declare a concentration until sophomore year). So about 250 per year.</p>
<p>And, sure enough, the NCES page on Harvard shows 243 bachelor’s degrees in economics awarded last year. Like cosar’s table, that probably includes “Economics +” and excludes a few “Something Else + Economics” joint concentrations.</p>
<p>There are generally two places to find data like this online. Each university’s registrar usually has something – in Harvard’s case, it’s all buried in a student handbook, on department-by-department pages, but usually there will be some registrar’s report with everything lined up. Then the National Center on Educations Statistics (nces.ed.gov) has a “College Navigator” site where there is a whole bunch of searchable, sortable, current information in a common format, including degrees awarded in the last complete academic year, by field.</p>