Canada's doctoral students
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In the 2008/2009 school year, 47% of the 42,801 students enrolled in doctoral programs at Canadian universities were women.
Women and men tend to gravitate to different fields. In 2005, 83% of doctoral graduates in engineering were men, while 64% of doctoral graduates in psychology and social sciences were women.
At the time of graduation in 2005, the median age of doctoral graduates was 33. That year, 47% of doctoral graduates reported English as their mother tongue and 20% reported French, while 8% said a Chinese language was their mother tongue.
Visible minority students made up 28% of doctoral graduates, but the proportion of visible minorities varied by program. They represented 62% of graduates in engineering, 32% in computer, mathematics and physical sciences, 16% in psychology and social sciences, and 11% in the humanities.
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