Male Otago University Grads Drop to Under 36% in 2022
The NZR examines Otago University's graduation data and finds that as a block female doctors, physiotherapists, biomedical scientists & dentists outnumber men by more than double.
Otago University graduation data has revealed a significant achievement gap between men and women, and women out-graduating in the Health Sciences in the hundreds.
Aside from Commerce, female graduates outnumbered males across all departments. In the Health Sciences, female graduate dentists, doctors, biomedical scientists and physiotherapists eclipsed their male counterparts by almost three times across the 2020 to 2022 period.
8775 women and 5934 men graduated [with a bachelors degree] in 2020. By 2022, 9308 women and 6118 men had finished at Otago.
Source: Otago University
This trend has been a common feature of data released to the NZR by Auckland University of Technology, the University of Canterbury and Ara. Otago University refused to release the 2023 graduation data on the ground that it would be releasing this information “soon” at the end of May in its annual report.
In 2020, men made up 38.88 percent of graduates. By 2023, that had fallen to 35.99 percent. Out of 5642 graduates, men numbered just 2028. These figures include both domestic and international students.
Even without international student numbers, male graduates made up 38.7 percent of graduates in 2020, 37.06 percent in 2021 and 35.68 percent of the total numbers.
Age Group Graduations
Female graduates outnumbered their males across all recorded age groups (19 and older). Amongst 20-year-olds, females outnumbered males by more than 2-1 across 2020, 2021, and 2022. For the 21 to 22 age categories, females were ahead by between 45 and 70 percent (0dp).
Table: of Female and Male Graduates - The numbers for 2020, 2021 and 2022
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