The table illustrates changes in numbers of university teachers by subject area in one country in 2005 and 2013, while also presenting the teacher per student ratio in the latter year.
In general, the fields of business and medicine had the largest number of instructors in both years, witnessing a considerable increase over time. Many other majors also saw a rise, and only two disciplines reported a drop in the given period.
Turning to the specifics, in 2005, the field of medicine employed the largest number of teachers, being the only major with over 30,000 professionals at the time. Business was another significant major, accounting for over 23,000 university-level teachers. Years later, in 2013, these subject areas remained the most dominant, with medicine increasing by 20.23%, and business growing by 24.39%.
Numerous other majors also experienced an increase. The smallest improvement can be seen in engineering, a subject area that added just 85 more teachers when 2005 and 2013 are compared. By contrast, humanities, sciences, arts and architecture all employed noticeably more people in 2013. The number of teachers in architecture, for instance, changed by over 34%, going from 2,380 teachers in 2005 to 3,204 in 2013.
With regard to cuts, two majors, namely agriculture and education, had the number of teachers decline by 2.80% and 3.05%, respectively. As for the teacher-student ratio in 2013, the majority of majors had over 8 students per teacher. However, engineering had 7 students per one instructor, whereas medicine, the biggest employer, had only 4 students per teacher.