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Students with lower grades earn degrees more often when they belong to an academic major's majority group

Despite efforts to encourage broader participation, women earn about 25% of undergraduate engineering degrees and 18% of undergraduate computer science degrees—and men remain a small minority among people earning nursing and education degrees.

Students with lower grades earn degrees more often when they belong to an academic major's majority group
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Despite efforts to encourage broader participation, women earn about 25% of undergraduate engineering degrees and 18% of undergraduate computer science degrees—and men remain a small minority among people earning nursing and education degrees.

Originally published at Phys.org

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