Fig. 6
Gender balance in the outgoing flows of students enrolled in STEM vs. non-STEM disciplines for the year 2008 against 2013. The scatter plot shows the F/MB measure for the outgoing flows of students for the years 2008 and 2013 by area of study. The STEM field is derived by summing the number of students in mobility in Engineering, manufacturing and construction, ICTs and Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, as coded following the ISCED-F 2013 classification. Non-STEM disciplines include Agriculture, forestry, fisheries and veterinary, Arts and Humanities, Business, administration and law, Education, Health and welfare, Services, Social sciences, journalism and information. The fields Not known or unspecified and Generic programs and qualifications are not included in either the two groups. The fitted lines are robust to outliers and pass through the averages (black dot) of the two macro-fields