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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 10. 1964.

Student Statistics

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Student Statistics

The proportion of full-time students among those enrolling for the first time at Victoria University has shown a steady increase over the last few years. This was revealed in a report presented to the last Council meeting by Mr. R. Hogg, the University liaison officer.

In 1964, 973 students enrolled directly from post-primary schools. Of these 714 (73%) were fulltimers. This Is a marked increase on the 613 enrolled in 1958 directly from post-primary schools only 335 (55%) of these being full-time students.

The increasing number of fulltime students snows the pressing need to expand student facilities.

An alarming feature of the report is the extremely low proportion of Maori students. Of the aformentioned 973 students only seven, two women and five men, were Maoris.

Altogether there were 1158 first-year students admitted to the University but Mr. Hogg based his analysis on the 973 students with NZ University Entrance.

Fifty-nine per cent (573) of the students with UE came from schools in Wellington City and its environs, 288 from country schools in the Victoria University District, 71 from schools in the University of Auckland district, 28 from the University of Canterbury district, three from the University of Otago district and 10 from other schools, e.g. Polytechnic and night classes.

Some students from country schools may have been boarding pupils whose homes are in Wellington, and some who were boarding pupils in Wellington schools may have homes in the country.

The median age of the men students on enrolment was 18 years six months. The median age of the women students was 18 years. At the time of enrolment Mr. Hogg made a survey to find where these first-year students live in Wellington. He found that 581 are living at home. 153 boarding privately, 193 in hostels and 22 in flats. Twenty-five students were unaccounted for.

Of the 973 first-year students, 849 were accredited University Entrance; 392 came direct from the lower sixth and 581 from the upper sixth.

Most of the students who enrol directly from the upper sixth become full-time students. This year 515 students from the upper sixth are studying full-time and 66 part-time. A total of 199 students from the lower sixth are studying full-time and 193 are studying part-time.

Many part-time students come from lower sixth forms or enter university with provisional matriculation. Mr. Hogg believes they are doubly handicapped because they cannot devote most of their time and energy to study and because their preparation for university study is not as good as that of most full-time students.

Of this year's freshers. 671 (69%) are men and 302 (31%) are women. Of the 671 men. 515 (77%) are full-time students and 156 (23%) are part-time students. Sixty-six per cent (199) of the women are full-time students and 103 (34%) are part-time students.

The following tables will give some indication of the courses of study being pursued by the 973 students:
Full-time Part-time Total
Men Women Total Men Women Total Men Women Total
Music 1 1 1 1
Arts 104 141 245 34 94 128 138 235 373
Science 115 41 156 15 4 19 130 45 175
Commerce 100 1 101 81 3 84 181 4 185
Law 86 6 92 11 1 12 97 7 104
Engineering 45 45 9 9 54 54
Architecture 15 1 16 15 1 16
Medicine 41 7 48 41 7 48
Dentistry 41 7 48 41 7 48
Agriculture 3 3 3 3
Other 6 2 8 6 6 12 2 14
515 199 714 156 103 259 671 302 973

The pattern of enrolment by courses is very much the same as in earlier years except for the increasing proportion of full-time students. This swing to full-time study is particularly marked in the group enrolling for commerce.

Classification By Number Of Subjects Taken:
Full-time Part-time
2 3 4 1 2 3
Men 3 326 186 33 113 10
Women 1 114 84 59 44
Total 4 440 270 92 157 10

These tables were prepared early in April. It is likely that a number of changes have already taken place during the customary settling-down period. A number of students, finding that their study load is too heavy, have already withdrawn from certain classes.