Data on Second Majors in Language and Literature, 2001–13
The report, published by the MLA office of research, analyzes data from the degree completions component of the United States Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. It concludes that second majors in foreign languages rose from 28.0% of the number of first majors in 2001 to 38.6% in 2013 and that the number of second majors in foreign languages exceeded the number of second majors in the next most populous field by 25.2%.