Ghana: gender distribution of students in public universities

As of 2019, male students were in higher number in all program disciplines in public universities in Ghana, with Education and Business as leading courses. Among women, Education programs also concentrated the largest number of students, followed by Arts and Social Science. Furthermore, female enrollments not only dominated in distance learning in Education and Business programs, but was also nearly equal to male enrollments in Agriculture disciplines.

Gender distribution of students in public universities in Ghana as of 2019, by program discipline

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July 2020

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Ghana

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2019

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*The source refers this to the combined number of students in Education and Business programs on Distance Learning mode (IDeL) from the University of Education Winneba, Ghana. All other IDeL programs have been put in their respective broad program discipline.

Public universities as applied here exclude Specialized/Professional Tertiary Education Institutions, Technical Universities & Polytechnics, Colleges of Agriculture, Public Colleges of Education, and Public Nursing and Midwifery Training Colleges.

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