Gender Equality Scheme - Swansea University

Stats for
Female
Male Pass Fail Total
Fail
%
Arts and Humanities F 8244 620 8864 7.0
M 5061 600 5661 10.6
Business, Economics and Law F 4820 583 5403 10.8
M 4952 1186 6138 19.3
Engineering and Science F 6412 836 7248 11.5
M 11758 2633 14391 18.3
Health and Human Sciences F 7216 769 7985 9.6
M 2234 376 2610 14.4
Not Assigned F 525 63 588 10.7
M 428 99 527 18.8
University F 27217 2871 30088 9.5
M 24433 4894 29327 16.7
4. A Review of Postgraduate Taught Masters Completion Rates
This section reviews student performance in relation to taught postgraduate completion rates.
The analysis focuses on full-time university/faculty level time series graphs for the period
2000/01 to 2003/04.
For female students across the university the completion rate remained steady at just over 80%.
For male students it steadily decreased and in 2003/04 it was 5% below that for females.
Female students performed better than male students in the Faculty of Business, Economics
and Law (91% completion compared with 76% completion). In other faculties, there was less
than 8% difference between males and females, with the Faculty of Health and Human
Sciences having the lowest rates, regardless of gender.
The graphs below provide a summary of completion rates for full-time taught postgraduates
between 2000/01 and 2003/04.
Figure 3
Full-time university and faculty completion rates by gender.
Male
Female
5.A Review of Postgraduate Module Failure Rates
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