Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1991

1991 Freshmen in Profile The annual surveys on new students o f the University conducted by the Office o f Student Affairs usually reveal interesting statistics about the undergraduate population. The survey on first-year undergraduate students admitted to the University in the academic year 1991-92 has recently been completed. O f the 2,155 full-time students, 2,138 returned the questionnaires, giving a high response rate o f 99,2 pe r cent.As f o r part-time degree programmes ， 369 returns were receivedfrom a total o f 380 new students. Freshmen in the Full-time Programmes Sex, Age ， Religion Statistics reveal that the overall male to female ratio among the freshmen is 1:0.99. Male students form the majority in the Faculty of Engineering (87.5 per cent) and the Faculty of Science (67.4 per cent), while female students dominate the Faculty of Arts (77.9 per cent) and the Faculty of Social Science (65.5 per cent). The average age of the students is 18.8 years, while male and female averages are 18.7 and 18.9 respectively. Some 66 per cent of the students profess no religious belief. The others are mainly Protestants (27.1 per cent) and Catholics (4.9 per cent). About 1.2 per cent are Buddhists. P re -un iv ers ity Non-academ ic L ife and Working Experience Freshmen in general have had an active non-academic life before entering the University: 99.4 per cent of them have participated in various extracurricular activities at school, and about 83 per cent have travelled outside Hong Kong. Some six per cent of the freshmen have had the experience of full-time employment, 28 per cent the experience of part-time employment and 80 per cent the experience of summer work prior to entering university. Mode o f education undertaken during the year p rio r to admission to The Chinese University: by sex Mode o f Educa tion Percentage o f Students Male Female Total Middle 6/Form 6 58.8% 66.7% 62.7% Form 7 31.8% 26.1% 29.0% Post-secondary 7.2% 2.6% 4.9% Private study 1.2% 0.9% 1.1% Others 0.5% 0.9% 0.7% Not studying 02.% 21.% 1.1% Unknown 0.3% 0.7% 0.5% Total 100% 100% 100% STUDENTS 18