More women opting for engineering studies
Germany – long known for its engineering expertise – showed an overall decline in new student engineering enrollment, but the data did show more women opting for the career path, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said on Saturday.
Overall the number of new students dropped by nine percent to 106,300 for both summer and winter enrolment for 2012/2013, but the Federal Statistics Office, which released the figures, said this mainly had to do with a statistical quirk.
More men enrolled in engineering studies last year than normally following the German government’s decision to end required military service. That inflated the numbers for 2011.
Still the statisticians were able to detect a 2.7 percent increase in the number of women students wanting to become engineers, a profession long-dominated by men not only in Germany but elsewhere.
Male enrolment dropped by 12 percent, but the data office appeared unconcerned, noting that patterns appear to be returning to normal following a big increase in 2011, mainly from men who no longer had to take time off between secondary and university studies because military service was no longer required.
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Overall the number of new students dropped by nine percent to 106,300 for both summer and winter enrolment for 2012/2013, but the Federal Statistics Office, which released the figures, said this mainly had to do with a statistical quirk.
More men enrolled in engineering studies last year than normally following the German government’s decision to end required military service. That inflated the numbers for 2011.
Still the statisticians were able to detect a 2.7 percent increase in the number of women students wanting to become engineers, a profession long-dominated by men not only in Germany but elsewhere.
Male enrolment dropped by 12 percent, but the data office appeared unconcerned, noting that patterns appear to be returning to normal following a big increase in 2011, mainly from men who no longer had to take time off between secondary and university studies because military service was no longer required.
The Local/mw
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