The table illustrates the number of tertiary students who enrolled to 6 different departments (English, Modern Languages, History, Physics, Math and Chemistry) in one university in Australia in 2011 categorized by gender and nationalities. Overall, Literature subjects were popular among women and non-native speakers preferred scientific subjects.
Of all six different studies, English and Modern Languages had seen the highest percentage of female learners as high as 72% and 68% respectively. STEM in contrast were less demanded with only 15% female students chose Chemistry.
Regarding the non-English speakers, nearly half of the students opted to study Maths, with other fields of science were not much different in popularity. For Humanities subject on the other hand, only History had large porpotion of these pupils, about 45% while the others were less than 20%.
This trend was reflected in the last column of number of international students with over half of the undergraduates took Physics and Maths as oppose to Humanities that had less than a third.
