It is also common for people to enroll when they are looking for a life or career change but are unsure of which direction they should take, said Terry Shtob, the director of Arts and Humanities at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
She said schools with humanities as a specialism had the option to focus on the teaching and learning of classical studies - Latin, Classical Greek and classical civilisation - alongside a core option of history, geography or English.
So much so that figures from the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service show that media studies students are now slightly more likely to get a job on graduating than other humanities students.