The table and pie charts presents the amount of research students in Australian universities in 2001 and 2010.
According to the table, it is clear that the number of local research students is totally more than international research students.
In 2001, local male occurred the largest ratio among four categories for research students (44%), and the following local female was only 1% fewer than local male. By contrast, percentage of non-local female was only 4% on this year, while non-local male was about 1% more than double of non-local female.
However, in 2010, non-local female had rapid increase, made its amount was almost 4 times of in 2001. Meanwhile, non-local male also rised for 3% than before, despite it became the fewest on this year. On the contrary, amount of two categories for local students was declined, and local female had more decrease than male, made proportion of local male was 3% more than local female.
