The chart below shows the different level of post-school qualifications in Australia and the proportion of men and women who held them in 1999.

The bar graph illustrates the disparity of the number of students by gender who held the five types of tertiary qualifications in Australia in 1999.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the skilled vocational

diploma

is by far the most popular course among male students,

while

the female favourite qualification is the undergraduate

diploma

. The bachelor's

degree

was chosen by both men and women at around a similar portion. First of all, men chose to study skilled vocational diplomas the bigger number at 90% compared to 10% women,

whereas

undergraduate

diploma

course was completed by female students, accounting for more than three quarters, and about half of

this

figure belonged to men. Bachelor's

degree

was popular for both genders which represented approximately 50%. Postgraduate

diploma

and master's

degree

was completed by male more than female in the year. For the postgraduate

diploma

's percentage was exactly 70% for males and 30% for females. Master's

degree

was distributed to three fifth and two fifth, respectively.