The bar chart below illustrates the number of foreign students enrolled in different university courses in Australia in 2010. The second chart provides information about students by continent of origin in the same year.
Overall, the most crowded course was business, whereas the art program had the lowest figures. In term of origin, Asia accounted the largest figure of origins. However, North America and Others represented the smallest proportion.
Looking for the bar chart, Business had the highest number, with approximately 24.000 students, which was sigificantly more than other courses. Engineering followed with around the same proportion, with around 18.000 of international students, making it the second popular way. In contrast, IT and Arts recorded lower number , at roughly 12.000 and 7.000 participants.
Regarding the students origin, half of the students are asian ethnithity, representing almost 50% of all foreign students. Europe represented exactly 20%, while South America and Africa have the same figures at 10% for each. North America and other categories each accounted for 5%. Which makes the asian community the most populated in Australian universities.
