The table below gives information about students studying in six departments in an Australian university in 2011.

The given table illustrates how many tertiary

students

enrolled in 6 fundamental majors at an Australian university in 2011.

Overall

, a majority of female

students

were in favour of

Humanities

and Education,

while

those two departments had the lowest proportions of

students

whose mother tongues were not

English

.

Moreover

, the highest percentages of non-indigenous Australian learners majored in Physics and IT. Regarding the distribution of gender, over 70% of the

students

learning

Humanities

were women, followed by the figure for Education, with 68%.

Conversely

, fewer female

students

seemed to find technological majors

such

as IT or Engineering appealing, with only 17% and 15% in that order. As for their first communicating language, about half of IT

students

(49%) were not native

English

speakers, which accounted for the highest figure,

whereas

the number of non-indigenous

English

enrolling in Science was 4% lower.

By contrast

, only 12% of

English

students

majored in the

Humanities

. In terms of international learners, Physics and IT shared the highest proportions of

students

born outside of Australia, with 56% each.

However

, the quantities of

students

with diverse nationalities in the Education and

Humanities

departments were the lowest, at 23% and 20%, respectively.