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Students with lower grades earn degrees more often when they belong to an academic major's majority group

Students with lower grades earn degrees more often when they belong to an academic major's majority groupWorldPing

Despite efforts to encourage broader participation, women earn about 25% of undergraduate engineering degrees and 18% of undergraduate computer science degrees—and men remain a small minority among people earning nursing and education degrees.

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