Major fields of those who left engineering but completed bachelor's degrees: 1982–1993 cohort, by gender [percentage distribution]
| Text table 3-9. Major fields of those who left engineering but completed bachelor's degrees: 1982–1993 cohort, by gender [percentage distribution] |
||||||
|
||||||
| Major field | |
Men | |
Women | |
All |
|
||||||
| Computer science | |
31.4 | |
14.3 | |
27.1 |
| Business (including accounting, finance, marketing, etc.) | 25.4 | 14.9 | 22.7 | |||
| Physical sciences | 17.3 | 29.5 | 20.4 | |||
| Social sciences | 11.41 | Low N 1 | 10.91 | |||
| Life sciences | Low N 1 | 15.11 | 6.2 | |||
| All other | 11.31 | 17.01 | 12.7 | |||
|
||||||
| 1 Male/female comparisons are not statistically significant. | ||||||
| SOURCE: NCES, High School and Beyond/Sophomore Cohort, 1982–1993 Cohort | ||||||
| Women, Minorities, and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 1998 | ||||||