{"id":5071,"date":"2020-05-29T13:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2021-02-19T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T16:58:17","slug":"class-of-2020-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/2020\/05\/29\/class-of-2020-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2020 by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four hundred and sixty-three members of the Class of 2020 are set to graduate on Sunday, May 31. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>37 States (plus D.C.) represented<\/li><li>38 Students from Maine<\/li><li>52 Countries represented (including U.S.)<\/li><li>32 Receiving departmental honors<\/li><li>41.5% varsity athletes<\/li><li>12.3% first generation to college<\/li><li>63.9% studied abroad*<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><em> Defined as a semester or more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Class of 2020 has accumulated 576 academic majors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>348 single majors<\/li><li>114 double majors<\/li><li>0 triple majors<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>M<\/strong>ajors distribution&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>American Cultural Studies: 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthropology: 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art and Visual Culture: 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biological Chemistry: 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biology: 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemistry: 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classical and Medieval Studies: 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dance: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Asian Studies: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economics: 71<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Engineering: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English: 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental Studies: 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European Studies: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French and Francophone Studies: 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gender and Sexuality Studies: 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geology: 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>German: 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History: 18<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interdisciplinary Studies: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japanese: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latin American Studies: 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathematics: 32<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music: 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neuroscience: 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philosophy: 17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Physics: 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politics: 76<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psychology: 58<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Religious Studies: 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhetoric: 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sociology: 31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish: 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theater: 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women and Gender Studies: 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred and sixty-three members of the Class of 2020 are set&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commencement-2020","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5080,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions\/5080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}