Male to female ratio on Economics courses

at cambridge i heard it is 65 boys to 15 girls. that looks like a bit of an unreliable ratio though.

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Biffy Clyro

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To be fair I have seen hardly any girls posting on this forum about Economics. Id have to say that I expect the ratio to be very high in favour of guys. 70:30 +

But then again, thats just a complete guess!

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sexybrowneyes88

OP

Biffy Clyro

To be fair I have seen hardly any girls posting on this forum about Economics. Id have to say that I expect the ratio to be very high in favour of guys. 70:30 +

But then again, thats just a complete guess!

I haven't seen many girls either, mainly guys.

Oh well, all the better 4 me then.. :biggrin:

Reply 4

alisama

at cambridge i heard it is 65 boys to 15 girls. that looks like a bit of an unreliable ratio though.

Considering there are over 150 economists at Cambridge in each year, that's probably wrong.

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alisama

N9ne

Considering there are over 150 economists at Cambridge in each year, that's probably wrong.

Perhaps, though if there were 160 economists one year then they could have divided 130 and 30 by 2. It is a ratio and therefore not constrained by the total.

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alisama

Perhaps, though if there were 160 economists one year then they could have divided 130 and 30 by 2. It is a ratio and therefore not constrained by the total.

It's not very often that a ratio isn't expressed in either its total form or most cancelled down form.

Regardless, it's quite obvious that there are more males than females studying Economics at most universities. Probably nowhere near equal either.

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President_Ben

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Waaaay more blokes than ladies take economics. Certainly true in the top billing unis.

70:30 average... but could easily be worse. And in reality, economists aren't usually the most attractive bunch. Though a fair few do break the rule - they aren't a classic hunting ground.

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President_Ben

Waaaay more blokes than ladies take economics. Certainly true in the top billing unis.

70:30 average... but could easily be worse. And in reality, economists aren't usually the most attractive bunch. Though a fair few do break the rule - they aren't a classic hunting ground.

More attractive than CompScis though!

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alisama

N9ne

More attractive than CompScis though!

Easily!

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yo_dude

President_Ben

70:30 average... but could easily be worse. And in reality, economists aren't usually the most attractive bunch. Though a fair few do break the rule - they aren't a classic hunting ground.

Ohhh yeah

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achwplc

this is bad!

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till.anna

President_Ben

Waaaay more blokes than ladies take economics..

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MMA

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President_Ben

Waaaay more blokes than ladies take economics. Certainly true in the top billing unis.

70:30 average... but could easily be worse. And in reality, economists aren't usually the most attractive bunch. Though a fair few do break the rule - they aren't a classic hunting ground.

If you think economists aren't attractive, try walking into any science department! On average economists aren't that bad, at least not where ive been.

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Drogue

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At Oxford it's ~60:20 for E&M. However those 20 are quite impressive - I've yet to meet an unattractive female E&Mist. One of my friends had a theory to explain it: E&Mists generally have city/finance parents, who's fathers are rich and mothers are pretty. PPE does less well for looks, but is a far more even ration, with philosophy and politics evening out the male dominated economics somewhat.

But hey, I date English students, I've never found an E&Mist fluffy* enough yet.

*technical Oxford term.

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