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Based on this chart directly from the SJSU Office of Institutional Research:
I calculated the percentage of the majority gender in each college and created these graphs:
Fall Semesters
Spring Semesters
In the last five years, with the exception of graduate and undergraduate studies, colleges where female students were in the majority seem to be more lopsided than colleges where males were in the majority.
Female students have pretty much dominated their fields. None of these colleges had less than 56% of their total students be female. The college with the highest percentage of female students was Education with 83.2%.
The male majority colleges were more balanced. In the past five years, the percentage of male students in these colleges have only reached 80% once. Engineering was the only one that did not hover around the mid to low 50s.
Female students have pretty much dominated their fields. None of these colleges had less than 56% of their total students be female. The college with the highest percentage of female students was Education with 83.2%.
The male majority colleges were more balanced. In the past five years, the percentage of male students in these colleges have only reached 80% once. Engineering was the only one that did not hover around the mid to low 50s.
The percentages seem pretty consistent all five years for each college except the college of graduate studies and undergraduate studies. Graduate studies is predominantly female except in the fall of 2008 and 2011, where it was split 50/50. Undergraduate studies fluctuated between male and female dominance a couple times over the years in both semesters.
For the most part, statistics show that these trends will not change in the near future. We will continue to trust women to educate our youth and rely on men to create the latest software.
