Women continue to gain weight in university enrollment as the number of female students entering universities has increased by 2% and the number of male students has decreased by 11% since 2013



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## Women continue to gain weight in university enrollment as the number of female students entering universities has increased by 2% and the number of male students has decreased by 11% since 2013

09/03/2023 |
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The presence of women in universities became widespread relatively recently, and yet in record time, they have surpassed men in terms of the percentage of students. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 56% of new undergraduate students in public universities in Valencia were women, compared to 44% men. The gap continues to widen, as since the 2013-2014 academic year, the number of female students enrolling in the first year has increased by 2%, while the number of male students has decreased by 11%. In total, last year, 13,487 girls and 10,569 boys enrolled in the degrees offered by the five universities in the region.

The data comes from the SIUVP platform (System of Indicators of Public Valencian Universities), created by the public universities of Valencia and the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (Ivie), which has just updated 19 of the indicators it includes. The database, which includes information on the University of Alicante, the Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche, the Universitat Politècnica de València, and the Universitat de València, also shows the results on the incorporation of women, according to the different branches of education.

**Evolution of the number of new undergraduate students. SIUPV**

![Evolución del alumnado de nuevo ingreso en titulaciones de grado. SUPV](https://ujiapps.uji.es/ade/rest/storage/CNQZ6RZJT4ZKNOLMFR46JSXDK6HCTHXX)

The increase in the number of new female undergraduate students in Engineering and Architecture degrees and also in Sciences is notable. In the first case, their presence is still a minority, as only one in three first-year students in the 2021-2022 academic year were women. However, that 33% represents progress compared to the 25% of women present in this field of study eight years earlier. The number of new female students enrolled between the 2013-2014 academic year and the 2021-2022 academic year has increased (18%) almost to the same extent that the number of male students has decreased (-17%).

In the case of Science degrees, the number of women has grown by 10%, while that of men has barely increased by 1%. Thus, women's advantage in the gender balance in this field is accentuated, as they represent 54% of the new undergraduate students in the 2021-2022 academic year.

Much further behind, and also on the rise, are women in the Arts and Humanities field, where new female undergraduate students represent 71% of the total, after growing by 8% since 2021. On the contrary, the number of boys enrolling in this type of degree has decreased by 17%.

Finally, in the fields of Social and Legal Sciences and Health Sciences, there has been a decrease in first-year students, both men, and women, although more pronounced in the case of men. In Social Sciences, the number of male students has fallen by 5% and that of female students by 4%, while in Health Sciences, in the 2021-2022 academic year, 16% fewer boys and 1% fewer girls enrolled than eight years earlier. In both fields, women represent the majority of new students: 61% in Social and Legal Sciences, and 72% in Health Sciences.

**Variation of the students again entry in degrees of degree by branches of education among the courses 2013-2014 and 2021-2022**

![Variación del alumnado de nuevo ingreso en titulaciones de grado por ramas de enseñanza entre los cursos 2013-2014 y 2021-2022](https://ujiapps.uji.es/ade/rest/storage/XW7EIDZKEVTDOP3YTQYPFSPJO3WLDMVH)

**Percentage of students again entry in degrees of degree by branches of education, according to the gender. Course 2021-2022**

![Porcentaje de alumnado de nuevo ingreso en titulaciones de grado por ramas de enseñanza, según el género. Curso 2021-2022](https://ujiapps.uji.es/ade/rest/storage/K7TDXQE09S741OK2MHQFRY0C1HLQOKAN)

The latest data from the SIUVP platform shows that the number of women enrolled in undergraduate programmes in Valencia has surpassed that of men for the first time, reaching 51.3% of new enrollments for the academic year 2020-2021. This trend has been consistent for several years, with women gradually increasing their share of new enrollments since the academic year 2013-2014. The largest gender gap is found in Health Sciences, where women account for 73% of new enrollments, while men represent only 27%.

As for the evolution of enrollment of men and women in master's degrees, a greater increase in demand is also observed for women. However, new master's enrollments show a generalized growth for both sexes in all fields, with the exception of a slight decline of 1.4% for men in master's degrees included in the Arts and Humanities field. In total, the new students in this type of postgraduate degree have grown by 29% between the 2013-2014 and 2020-2021 academic years.

In addition to information on university access and students, the SIUVP platform, which is administered by public universities in Valencia and the Ivie, has just updated other indicators with information related to academic performance, internationalization, economic data, research and transfer.

The information collected in the SIUVP platform ranges from purely academic aspects, such as teaching supply and demand, to more specific economic data on the resources and results of each university's activity. Specifically, the indicators are grouped into the following fields:

* University access
* Students
* Academic performance
* Internationalisation
* Human resources
* Investigation and transfer
* Economic data

All the indicators can consult in [www.siuvp.es](http://www.siuvp.es)

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