Female STEM culture at Ivys, LACs, etc.

<p>[MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research) gives the following percentages of degrees in non-STEM majors (17% of the total):</p>

<p>2% architecture
1% communication / journalism
0% foreign language, literature, and linguistics
1% English
1% liberal arts / general studies
0% philosophy and religious studies
6% social sciences
1% visual and performing arts
5% business and marketing
0% history</p>

<p>and STEM majors (80% of the total):</p>

<p>13% computer and information sciences
41% engineering
8% biological sciences
8% mathematics and statistics
10% physical sciences</p>

<p>and the following which may be STEM or non-STEM:</p>

<p>3% interdisciplinary studies</p>

<p>However, there is no breakdown by gender in the common data set.</p>