The table compares the percentage of students who studied in six distinct departments at an Austratian university in 2009.
Overall, the given chart highlights significant variations in learners, where female learners recorded the highest percentages among all subjects, while the percentage of students whose native language was not English experienced the lowest proportions.
In terms of female students, English and modern languages accounted for the largest percantages, at 67% and 63%, followed by history at 58%. Maths, physics, and chemistry, however, attracted the lowest proportion of learners, at only 42%, 37%, and 29% respectively. Regarding students who were non-native English speakers, most of the students studied in modern languages and physics, stood at 42% and 38%, compared with 36% and 32% students from maths and chemistry departments. The figures for English and history showed the fewest learners.
As for students from outside Australia, modern languages again led the group, peaked at 54%, followed by 47% and 44% students from chemistry and physics departments. These were comparatively higher than the figure for maths subject, at 43%. English and history, on the other hand, were the least common subjects among foreign students, at just 27% and 18% respectively.
