Is it actually true that STEM majors lean conservative and that humanities majors lean progressive?

[WalterWhite]

It is often posited that STEM majors lean conservative and that humanities majors lean progressive. Is there actually any data on how STEM majors vs. social science majors vs. humanities majors lean? If so, is it true that STEM majors lean conservative and that humanities majors lean progressives? If this is true, why would this be the case?

[WalterWhite]

If this is true, it is probably related to the fact that most high-paying jobs are in the STEM, and higher-income people generally lean Republican.

[King of Kensington]

There's also a difference between natural scientists and engineers with the former being more liberal.

[ملكة كرينجيتوك]

It's a false dichotomy- both are clearly left-leaning (or at least vote D, which is what the Leipverse really cares about).

Theoretically humanities majors should be ideologically further left on average, but they're also drawn from a broader family income swath of the general population so might not be as uniformly part of "reliably D" or "D-trending" demographics.

In practice a lot of people who work in software/tech are still fairly socially and culturally left-of-center and supportive of redistributive policies. Granted my anecdotal experience is largely limited to people under 40ish, but my overall impression is that finance people are more right-wing/less left-wing on average than people in tech, non-tech engineering, and increasingly healthcare.

[Del Tachi]

Most STEM and humanities majors would be liberal-leaning; the most conservative college majors are your business fields:  finance, accounting, management, etc.

[Alben Barkley]

I think it used to be true, but not so much today. Also even then it was more the engineers that leaned conservative while the science majors, not so much.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

It used to be but I don't think it holds true anymore. There's actually a disproportionate number of LGBT people in computer science in particular.

[King of Kensington]

There's no hard data on this.  I assume this is by field of the bachelor's degree (so an English major whose highest degree is an MBA is counted as a humanities major for example)?