The graph and the chart below show the number of students choosing different kinds of courses in a university in 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph and the chart below show the number of students choosing different kinds of courses in a university in 2012.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given line diagram delineates the total
number
of undergraduates taking different courses in a particular university
while
the bar graph reveals the gender preference of given choices in 2012. Generally, there were six majors as social
sciences
led the chart with the most participants
whereas
agriculture
accounted for the least. Based on sexes, female
students
enrolled more
into
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social
sciences
, health, and humanities
while
male counterparts took up engineering and mathematical science.
Agriculture
had the same
number
for both genders.
Firstly
social
sciences
comprised of mostly females, reaching 4,000 numerally
while
males were 1000
students
behind.
Next,
the health department exhibited the same tendency with over 1500
students
being women and less than 1000
students
being men. The same applied to humanities, where the majority of attendees were females, with nearly the same amount yet males being slightly higher at the 1,000 mark. For Engineering, the male
number
was more than double that of its counterparts with more than 2,000
students
taking the course. Moving onto mathematical science, it experienced a familiar trend with fewer
students
in total, 1,500 for males and around 750 for females respectively.
Finally
,
agriculture
attracted the least
students
but it had an equal
number
of both genders attending classes at being 200 approximately. For the total
number
of undergraduates, the first came social
sciences
with 7,000
then
Engineering with less than half of the aforementioned subject. Next was health and humanities just reached over 2,000. Science and math took up around 2,000 marks
whereas
only 400
students
took up
agriculture
.
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