Preferred subject area of parents for their children at university by country 2015

This statistic shows the subject areas parents would prefer their children studied at university across a range of countries, as of 2015. While 29 percent of parents in Indonesia would like their children to study medicine the most, that number was only 10 percent in the United Kingdom.

Preferred subject area of parents for their children at university in selected countries in 2015

Characteristic	Medicine	Business, management and finance	Engineering	Computer and information science	Law	Other*
Indonesia	29%	13%	10%	14%	3%	31%
United Arab Emirates	28%	16%	20%	9%	0%	27%
Turkey	25%	2%	16%	10%	11%	36%
Mexico	21%	10%	20%	10%	3%	36%
Malaysia	21%	18%	25%	6%	2%	28%
Brazil	18%	6%	19%	6%	12%	39%
Hong Kong	17%	19%	3%	5%	14%	42%
Singapore	16%	25%	10%	10%	6%	33%
China	15%	25%	6%	7%	5%	42%
France	15%	6%	8%	8%	5%	58%
India	14%	22%	23%	16%	2%	23%
United States	13%	15%	12%	11%	4%	45%
Taiwan	12%	19%	4%	10%	3%	52%
Canada	11%	9%	11%	6%	5%	58%
Australia	11%	7%	7%	6%	4%	65%
United Kingdom	10%	7%	11%	9%	5%	58%

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Release date

July 2015

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

March and April 2015

Number of respondents

5,550 parents

Supplementary notes

Figures are based on those collected from Ipsos MORI for HSBC.

Interviews were conducted in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the UK and the US.

Parents were asked the question, "Which, if any, of the following subject areas would you most like your child to study at university?". Therefore the total share of respondents does not equal to 100%.

*other refers to the percentage of respondents who did not express a preference to one of options shown here.

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