How many women choose a degree in science and technology?

With that in mind, experts at Theknowledgeacademy.com sought to investigate the science degrees most sought after by women, and which degree has seen the highest increase over one year, by studying figures from HESA.

Most women chose to study subjects allied to medicine.

Theknowledgeacademy.com noticed the science subjects most sought after by women are subjects allied to medicine. In fact, there were 560,530 undergraduate enrolments in 2017/2018. This number has spiked by 0.9% in the following years, taking the number of women studying subjects allied to medicine to 229,895. According to HESA these include:

Anatomy & Physiology, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Nutrition, Ophthalmics, Audiology, Nursing, Medical technology, Other medical subjects, Balanced combination.

While it is the most studied course type, subjects allied to medicine saw the smallest increase in students over one year, 0.9%. Same goes for Physical sciences, where there was the same percentage increase.

Veterinary sciences are at the bottom of the list.

When it comes to the science degree least sought after by women, this is revealed to be Veterinary sciences. There were only 6,110 undergraduate women enrolled in this course in the year 2017/2018. However, there is some good news for animal lovers, as this number spiked by 6.7% the following year.

Computer sciences has seen the highest spike in undergraduate female students.

Interestingly, the degree which sees the highest percentage increase in female students is Computer sciences – 11.6%. This is followed by Agriculture & related subjects (7.8%) and, as mentioned before, Veterinary sciences with 6.7%.

UK is just below the EU average for the number of women in science and tech.

When it comes to a wider view, figures from Eurostat have shown that out of the total percentage of people in science and tech in the EU, 41% of them are women. When it comes to the UK, there are 40.7% women in the industry.