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In contrast, a look at the total number of students attending the TUD This change is shown again in Figure 4, broken down by school. It becomes
(Figure 3) shows that student numbers have declined over the past apparent that the proportion of female students has increased in most
10 years. While a total of 36,962 people were studying at the TU Dresden schools over the past 10 years. Only in the humanities, social sciences and
in the winter semester of 2012/2013, only 30,069 people were enrolled in the central academic units has the proportion fallen slightly, but it remains
the winter semester of 2022/2023. During this period, the decline was over 50% in each case.
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particularly high among non-female students (from 21,272 to 16,112),
and somewhat lower among female students (from 15,690 to 13,957).

80 %
Figure 4
60 %
Comparison of the percentage of
40 % female students in the winter semesters
25000 2012/2013 and 2022/2023 broken down
20 %
Figure 3 20000 by school (source: TUD/D6)
Evolution of TUD's student numbers by 0 %
absolute numbers (source: TUD/D6) 15000 MN GSW ING BU MED ZWE TUD
2012/13 2022/23 1 Focus: Gender
10000

5000

0
2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23

female non-female

4 Statistics of TU Dresden only distinguish between female proportions and the to-
tal share. This means that in the Factbook Diversity the statistics are presented
in two categories female and non-female (i.e., male, diverse or no data). If sta-
tistics explicitly show male proportions, these are also referred to as such.

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