Preliminary Report on the Status of Women in STEM at the UArizona
While individual colleges and departments often track (in formal and informal ways) demographic trends among their students, there is yet to be a cross-institutional analysis of women’s entry, persistence, and success across STEM fields at UA. This report fills this knowledge gap by providing an overview of enrollment, persistence, and graduation rates of women students in comparison to their men counterparts across STEM colleges and departments. Specifically, this report focuses on the four main UA colleges where students pursue undergraduate STEM degrees: Agriculture and Life Sciences; Engineering; Optical Sciences; and Science. Due to the limitations of existing data sets, this report focuses on the undergraduate student population. This report was made possible with funding from the University of Arizona Office of the Provost.