The bar chart below shows the number of research students studying different subjects in 2005.

The bar chart below shows the number of research students studying different subjects in 2005.
This
bar graph illustrates how many research
students
studied linguistics, psychology, natural sciences, engineering, programming and mathematics
further
broken down into male and female
students
in 2005.
Overall
, more male
students
were studying when compared to female
students
in all subjects with the exception of linguistics and natural sciences. The highest disparity between the sexes was observed in mathematics
whereas
the lowest difference was in psychology. In terms of natural sciences, 200 male and female
students
opted to study
this
subject making it the most popular course among both genders.
However
,
while
male
students
maintained their majority in psychology and mathematics with 200
students
each, there were about 175 and 45 female
students
in each of these subjects respectively.
On the contrary
, approximately 110 female
students
studied linguistics which was around 30 more
students
when compared with men. An equal number of male
students
were studying engineering and programming at 150
students
, but just under 100 female
students
took up engineering and the figure for female
students
in programming was almost half in comparison to male
students
.
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