{"id":65628,"date":"2013-05-24T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=65628"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:10:49","slug":"class-of-2013-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/24\/class-of-2013-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Class of 2013, by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The members of this year’s graduating class gathered in Underhill Arena on May 24 for their class photo. Photo by Mike Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bates will award bachelor\u2019s degrees to 436 students Sunday \u2014 the 234 women and 202 men being recognized as the Class of 2013.<\/p>\n

The graduates include 39 students from Maine, 178 from the other five New England states and 171 from 28 other states throughout the country \u2014 representation from 34 states in total. The class also includes 48 students from outside the U.S., representing 29 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Psychology was the most popular major among the group (58 students), with economics ranked second this year (46). History and politics tied for third place, with 40 majors each.<\/span><\/p>\n

The class also includes 67 students with double majors \u2014 43 women, 24 men. (Last year the college graduated 52 double majors.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Among that group, mathematics and politics are tied for the most popular second major, with eight apiece. French is next with seven. Economics and psychology tie at five each.<\/p>\n

Bachelor of arts degrees will go to 344 members of the class (182 women, 162 men), while 92 will receive bachelor of science degrees (52 women, 40 men).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who like statistics, here’s how this year’s graduates stack up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":65644,"comment_status":"open","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":[4,243,11009],"tags":[10831],"class_list":["post-65628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-annual-events","category-the-college","tag-commencement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65628"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150242,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65628\/revisions\/150242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}