The bar chart shows the difference between foreign and UK students taking second class degrees at a UK university in 2009.
Overall, international students dominated in tech related fields especially Information Technology, since there was a large gap of eightly percent for the international students versus less than sixty percent for the UK students. However, in subjects related to Humanities such as International Law, UK students outperformed comparing to international students, for the UK students achieved around seventy percent class degrees whereas the non UK students achieved only low percentage of around forty percent.
Moreover, Some subjects were represented equally with identical performance between the two groups. In Nursing, both groups achieved very high results, with UK students at around seventy five percent. Similarly, Accountancy recorded nearly equal figures, as both groups remained at sixty percent.UK students performed slightly better in subjects such as Art History, English Literature, Law, and Sociology. In Art History, around eighty percent of UK students gaineda second-class degree or better compared with roughly seventy percent of international students. A similar pattern appeared in English Literature, where UK learners achieved approximately seventy five percent, slightly higher than the roughly sixty percent recorded for international students. In Law and Sociology, the UK group also showed a small advantage, with their percentages standing at around seventy to eighty percent, compared with international students who reached slightly lower proportions of forty to seventy five percent.