The table provides information about students studying in six departments at an Australian university in 2009, showing the proportions of females, students whose first language was not English, and those born outside Australia.
Overall, the Humanities and Education departments had the highest percentages of female students, while Information Technology and Engineering were dominated by males. In contrast, the proportion of students whose first language was not English or who were born overseas was generally higher in science- and technology-related fields.
In detail, females made up the vast majority in Humanities (72%) and Education (68%), while their representation was much lower in Information Technology and Engineering, at only 17% and 15% respectively. The Science and Physics departments were more balanced, with 52% and 56% females.
Students whose first language was not English were most common in Information Technology (49%), followed by Science (45%) and Engineering (42%). The lowest proportions were found in Humanities (12%) and Education (16%). Similarly, the percentage of students born outside Australia was highest in Physics and Information Technology (both 56%), while Humanities and Education again had the fewest foreign-born students, at 20% and 23% respectively.