The chart illustrates the number of male and female students choosing six different university subjects in 2012, as well as the total number of students.
Overall, Social Sciences attracted the highest number of students, while Agriculture had the lowest. Female students generally outnumbered males in half of the subjects, except for Engineering, Science and Math, and Agriculture where male enrolments were higher.
Looking first at Social Sciences, the total number of students was by far the highes at 7,000. Females made up the majority with approximately 4,000, compared with about 3,000 males. Engineering also saw relatively large enrolments of around 3,000 students, but unlike Social Sciences, male students dominated this field, with around 2,200 , while the number of female students was just under 1,000.
By contrast, both Health and Humanities courses attracted similar totals in the range of 2,000 to 2,300 respectively. In each case, female enrolments were significantly higher than male ones, with over than 1,500, while the remainder were males.
In terms of Science and Math, it showed the opposite pattern, with a total of about 2,000 students, where males clearly outnumbered females.The figure for males showed nearly 1,500 enrolments, while those for females werre slightly below 1,000. Agriculture had the lowest figures, with jjust under 500 students in total, and the number of both genders showing the same results in this field at around 200.