The table illustrates the percentage of students majoring in six different faculties regarding their gender, first language, and nationality at an Australian university in 2009.
Overall, while the majority of female students specializing in English, Modern languages, and History, most scholars from these faculties, except for Modern languages, spoke English as their mother tongue. In addition, those majoring in History were mostly Australian.
More than half of the undergraduates studying English, Modern languages, and History were women, accounting for 67%, 63%, and 58% respectively, whereas the figures for natural science subjects such as Maths, Physics, and Chemistry are lower, which made up 42%, 37% and 29% in that order. The proportion of students whose first language was not English was the highest in the Modern languages department, at 41%, followed by Physics (38%), Maths (36%) and Chemistry (32%). In the meantime, the figures for English and History faculty were less than one-fifth, with the respective share of 16% and 10%.
In terms of their homeland, 54% of undergraduates specializing in Modern languages were foreigners, doubling that of English and 7% higher than the figure for Chemistry. The percentage of Physics and Maths students coming from other nations was roughly the same, at 44% and 43%, almost threefold the figure for History.