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Woman and man at Yale

The male-female ratio in all 14 of the university's schools.

Chart: Mark Zurolo ’01MFA. Sources: Office of Institutional Research,

Chart: Mark Zurolo ’01MFA. Sources: Office of Institutional Research,

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Nearly a century and a half after the first women enrolled at Yale in 1869 (in the School of Art), the proportion of male and female students at the university is close to even: there were 5,993 men and 5,913 women enrolled in 2012–13. But within that total, as this chart shows, there was a lot of variation among Yale’s 14 schools: the Schools of Management and Engineering had nearly two-thirds men, while women dominated the Schools of Nursing and Public Health. Yale College, with 2,702 men and 2,677 women last year, was closest to 50–50.

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