The chart below gives about Australian university students studying in 2009.
Overall, it is noticeable that the majority of female students learn humanities and education. By contrast, although engineering and information technology less popular in female students but popular in foreign students.
Department humanities and education choosen by female student in 72% and 68 % but included 12% – 16 % those whose first language is not English. Moreover, science and physics also dominated in female students 52% and 56%,but in this case students who is fisrt languages not english and foreign pupils mostly chose these subject than previous departments at 31- 38% .
With regard to the other two departments, they had less selected percentage than other subjects in female students by 15-17%. While information technologes accounted 49% in international students and english is second languages students amounted 56%. While that of those whose first language is not English, information technology had 49%, compared to 38% and 42% of engineering.