The bar chart illustrates how many students drop out of university for every 1,000 students among three sectors across four countries in the year of 2015.
Overall, while education recorded the highest rates of discontinued enrollments in most countries, with the exception of Canada, medicine experienced the lowest dropout rates except in the UK. In addition, the number of dropouts for the medicine and business sectors in the US was almost identical.
Canada had the highest number of discontinued students in the education sector, at 5.5 per 1000 students, far exceeding the figures for the medicine and business sectors, at 1.8 and 3.2 respectively. The US was the second major contributor, with 5 per 1000 students choosing dismissal. The number of dropout students for the medicine and business categories in the UK was the same, at 2 per 1000 students.
Turning to the UK, the medicine sector was the dominant field, at 4.3 per 1000 students giving up academic pursuit. The figures for the education and business sectors in the UK were lower than that for the medicine sector, at 2.8 and 2.5 respectively. In contrast, approximately 4.3 per 1000 students in Australia dropped out of university for the education sector, almost prevalent that for the business sector. The number of dropout students for the medicine sector was nearly half of that for the two remaining sectors, at 2.5 per 1000 students.
