A report from the university admissions service has revealed that 68 per cent of undergraduate drama applicants for the 2020 admissions cycle identified as female, a similar gender distribution to that in 2019.
For last year’s cycle there were 38,090 students of all ages applying to study drama at university through UCAS. Of this number, 26,075 selected ‘female’ on their application, while 12,015 selected ‘male’.
The gender distribution of accepted applicants for the 2020 cycle is almost identical, with 68 per cent of the 6,470 students identifying as female.
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