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2023 to 2024. However, there has been a downward trend in the percentage of enrolments in all fields of study for all other racial groups, with Business/Commerce (-1%), Education (-0.1%) and Humanities (-0.5%) from 2023 to 2024. These patterns underscore the disparities in enrolment distribution across racial groups in various fields of study.
In the last three years PG enrolments, encompassing programmes up to Master’s level, Master’s and doctoral degrees, have steadily grown. Total enrolments increased from 2,579 in 2022 to 3,282 in 2024, reflecting a significant 21.42% rise over this period. Among these PG students, those in the SET field constituted the majority, accounting for 41.2% of the total PG enrolments in 2024, 1.6% up on 2023, while the Business/Commerce field accounted for 37.7% of the total PG enrolments, and the Humanities comprised 17.2%. In terms of degree levels, there was an increase of 7.6% in doctoral student enrolments from 2023, while Master’s enrolments decreased by 2.2% relative to 2023, as shown in Figure 7.
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The enrolment of students with disabilities has shown a 14.1% increase over the past three years, rising from 403 in 2022 to 460 in 2024. In 2022 students with disabilities comprised 1.26% of the total headcount enrolments at the University, and this number has seen marginal increments of 0.04% for 2023 and 2024. It is noteworthy that the category of students classified as ‘disabled but unspecified’ now represents 60.4% of the 2024 students with disabilities enrolled. Approximately 22.2% of disabilities among students are attributed to visual impairment, while physical disabilities related to movement account for around 7.6% of disabilities, with hearing and intellectual challenges at 5.9% and 3%, respectively.
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Figure 7: Postgraduate student headcount enrolments, 2022–2024
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