Monday, 15 July 2013

Statistics about the mathematics program

Last week students who have applied to university programs and courses received the admission decision from the universities across Sweden. Having had a special interest in the mathematics program I decided to do some follow-up on the number of application across some of the universities. First a diagram of total number of applications across the universities, Gothenburg University, Lund University, Stockholm University and Linköping University. These numbers include both applications to programs and courses.

Now the total number of applications to the maths program at the different universities. Please note that Stockholm has 4 different mathematics program, and I have only included the one called "Kandidatprogram i Matematik" as it seemed to be the one best suited to compare with the other universities. Lund has also this year, two separate maths program, called "Naturvetenskapligt kandidatprogram, Matematik (undervisning på engelska)" and "Naturvetenskapligt kandidatprogram, Matematik" which I have counted as one program, with the only difference is seemingly the language.


  I then weighted the number of applications to the Maths program with the total number of applications to the university:


Linköping is doing well with the number of applications, but what I really want to get my hands on is some drop-off numbers, that is to say, the number of students who don't complete the program. I would like to see if the drop-off numbers are decreasing, and also how the other universities are dealing with drop-off's from their programs... If anyone knows how to get their hands on that information, please contact me :)

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