The table below gives information about students studying in six departments in an Australian university in 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The given table displays data on undergraduates who
study
in six departments in an
Australian
college in the year 2011. The six departments include
Humanities
, Education, Science, Physics, IT, and Engineering.
Overall
, more
Australian
female
students
chose to
study
Humanities
than any other department,
in contrast
with the ones whose first language is not English and who were born outside Australia, who chose to
study
Humanities
the least. The IT is the most popular department for
students
who
did
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not speak English as their native language. As can be seen from the table, just over 70% of females decided to
study
in the
Humanities
department, but IT was the least popular choice for
this
group, at 17%. Just nearly half of
students
whose first language is not
Australian
studied at the IT and Science departments, at 49% and 45% respectively.
On the contrary
to female
students
, just over 10% of
students
who did not speak
Australian
as their mother tongue chose to
study
Humanities
. Looking at the table in more detail, the number of
students
who were not born in Australia studying IT and Physics was the same, at 56%. The second most popular subject chosen by
this
group was Engineering, at 48%.
Humanities
and Education were among the least favourite subjects chosen by
this
group, at 20% and 23% respectively.
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