The line chart compares the number of students enrolled on four types of educational Chinese courses during three years. Information is shown is millons of people.
Overall, the courses included in the comparison were postgraduate, undergraduate, online training, and literacy courses, while the years included were 2008, 2010, and 2012. Additionally, it is clearly seen that undergraduate education was the most popular choice as time passed, whereas literacy courses were the least popular.
Initially, in 2008, the undergraduate category started with less than 20 millon students and then increased to about 23 millon. Online training had an increasing rate as well, going from about 3 millon up to 5 millon people. In the case of postgraduate, it remained at the same number (about 2). Finally, literacy courses underwent a significant decrease in popularity, leading to a number of 0 students enrolled in 2010, but this trend changed from that point to 2012, where it recovered almost its initial levels of students.
