The table illustrates the percentage of students, who are studying at an Australian university, majoring in 6 different departments: humanities, education, science, physics, information technology and engineering in 2009.
Overall, humanity, education and science departments had large proportion of female learners, while non-native English speakers and people, who born outside Australia reached a high percentage in other areas.
The percentage of females in humanities and education was at 72% and 68%, which is the highest proportion, although it experienced downward pattern in other areas, such as information technology and engineering.
The proportion of non-native English speakers and people, who born outside Australia in information technology was at 49% and 56%. In addition, engineering had 42% of learners whose first language is not English and 48% of students, who born outside Australia. Meanwhile, the percentage of females was the smallest in both categories at an Australian university.