The table provides information about how many research students in Australian colleges and the pie chart gives details of the percentage of students’ gender and where they come from between 2001 and 2010.
Overall, it is obvious that there was an upward trend in the number of both local and international students who conducted research in the examined period. Another interesting point is that the proportion of these students also witnessed some decrease.
According to the table, in 2001, there were 38849 research students in total, including 33657 local students and 5192 international ones. In the next 9 years, these figures grew sustainably. As for local undergraduates, the figure rose remarkably by around 20%, with 39488 students. Regarding the number of international pupils, it experienced a nearly triple rise, from 5192 to 14593 in 2010.
Following the pie chart, in 2001, the percentages of local male and female students were quite similar, 44% and 43% respectively. The figures for non-local male was 9% which was more than twice as much as that for female, with 4%. Over the 9-year period, the proportion of international male and female mounted up to 12% and 15% successively while that of local fell gradually to 35% and 38% in turn.