The pie charts illustrate the proportion of students enrolled in various types of course at Salisbury college in 1984, 1994 and 2004.
Overall, while face-to face courses were the most common choice in all years, the reverse was true for correspondence and mixed media courses. Moreover, face-to-face courses stood out among other categories with consistently higher figures in each year, despite a decline in the final year.
In 1984, face-to-face courses were the most prevalent course, attracting 67% of students. Correspondence course was the second common choice, involving quarter proportion of all students, whereas mixed-media course enrolled the smallest percentage of people. As for 1994, although the figure for face-to-face courses declined slightly to 53%, it still remained the most popular course among students. There were almost the same figures on the percentages of mixed-media and correspondence courses. Notably, online courses emerged for the first time, accounting for 12% of total.
Looking at 2004, while face-to-face courses experiences a slight decrease, a significantly increase was observed in the percentage of online courses, 35%. Mixed-media courses witnessed a notable growth, however correspondence courses decreased markedly, involving the least percentage of students.
