Figure 1, below, shows the proportion of female graduate students (master’s and doctoral) across the different Penn State campuses for the years 2004-2009. The majority of campuses range between .30 and .60 in their proportion of female grad students to all grad students.
Figure 2, below, shows the proportion of female master’s students at University Park campus (2004-2009). This ranges between .43 and .47 across all different colleges.
Figure 3, below, shows the distribution of female Ph.D. students at University Park by the college they are enrolled in. Arts & Architecture, Health & Human Development, Education, Liberal Arts, and Communication have consistently had more than 50% female students across the time span (2004-2009). Agricultural Sciences and IST have both had noticeable growth in the proportion of female students since 2004. Engineering was consistently below other colleges with around 20% female students across the time span.
