The given mixed chart illustrates the variety of alternative courses which were chosen by a demographic of university students, distinguished by their gender, in 2012.
Overall, both men and women in social sciences majors predominate over others, conversely, agriculture experienced the opposite. While male students gravitate more towards engineering, science and maths, female students outnumbered their counterparts in clinical and humanities courses. This distinction depicts the influence of gender upon a pupil’s intrigue and academic options.
Analysing the total number of students more closely, one can see that social sciences surpassed the remaining majors with approximately 7000 learners, which was more than twice of engineering students. The aforementioned departments were followed by health, humanities, and science and maths majors, all of whom welcomed roughly 2000 attendants. In addition, agricultural enthusiasts accounted for the least out of all majors, at far less than 200 students.
In comparison of students’ genders, though agriculture courses received the least, its proportion was evenly distributed, at around 100 students. Conversely, social sciences remained at the first place, with nearly 3000 males and 4000 females. The mere half of the aforementioned figure was approximately the quantity of males enrolling in the engineering department, which is still twice as much as its female counterpart. A similar trend could be observed in science and maths, though with a smaller number, at around 2100 males and 500 females, respectively. On the other hand, women in health and humanities takes up around 1500 for each major, while there were merely about 1000 males in humanities and 500 in health.