The two diagrams below illustrate the percentage of research student studied include local and international purple in Australia from 2001 to 2010.
Overall, it is clear that the total number of research students increased over the period. Although local students remained the majority, the proportion of international students rose considerably. In addition, female international students experienced the most significant growth.
Initially, with the table chart, the number of local research students have a significant increase. In 2001, Australian students have 33,657 students 5,192 international people studied in Australia. And the total of students in this country were 38,549. But in 2010. Australia universities witnessed remarkable escalation of students studied. There were 39,488 of local research students, it rose around 5831 people compared to 2001. In addition, the number of overseas students rapidly increased, roughly 14,593 students apply for universities. Therefore, the sum of research students in Australian universities also grew.
On the other hand, with pie charts, it is undeniable that the number of female and male international students have considerable difference with male and female non-overseas students. The percentage of local male accounted for 43% of the total in 2001, but it slightly declined around 8% in 2010. And same situation, the number of non-local learner also negligibly dropped from 44% to 38%. By contrast, in 2010, the approximate of non-local female peoples made up 12%., it was higher than 2001s. Especially, the total of overseas female purple had a noticeable change, the number of female student rose from 4% to 15%.