The table indicates the percentage of students attending in six different faculties in an Australian university in the year 2009.
As an overall trend, it can be seen that the proportion of females in English, modern language, and history departments took up the highest numbers, while the opposite was true for other faculties. Additionally, students whose first language was not English and born outside Australia often accounted for about a half total of learners across all faculties, accepting modern language departments.
In 2009, the English faculty showed the largest percentage of female university students with 67%, followed by modern languages at exactly 63%. Meanwhile, the female learners studying history had 58%, compared to 37% in physics departments. Additionally, the share of female university learners in math and chemistry made up 42% and 29%, respectively.
When it comes to students whose mother tongue was not English, modern languages recorded the highest position with under a quarter, while History showed the lowest percentage among the six examined categories with only 10%. Similarly, the rate of students born outside Australia topped the number with 54%, whereas history also had the lowest figure at 18%. Besides, other fields like English, math, physics and chemistry in non-English first language and born out Australia recorded significant rates, ranging from 32% to 47%.