Liberal Arts Vs Allied Health Essay

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The trends on the numbers of students applying a major in engineering, liberal arts, and allied health programs in 2005 through 2009 from Acme University, can drastically be shown the differences between each major from the graph. The graph shows the differences between the amounts of students applying a major in engineering, liberal arts, and allied health by the enrollment year, which is between 2005 through 2009 and the amount of students applied. We can already analyze that liberal arts was a popular topic, but had dips between the years. Engineering was a slow candidate to choose, but soon started to rise. Allied Health was the same in the beginning year. but at the end of 2009, it became the most popular major out of the three. Liberal Arts was a very popular major beginning in the year of 2005. It averaged about 800 students, but drastically declined in 2006, to about 570 students. There could have many reasons …show more content…

It plays as the middle contender between the two. It starts at about 600 students in 2005 and then takes a very small decrease for the following year of 2006. Again in 2007 it takes another small decrease to about 540 students. The course stays as the middle contender throughout the years. The next year Allied Health had a pretty good increase of about 90 students, but could not come out in top between any courses, falling slightly behind engineering, but way higher than Liberal Arts. The following year Allied Health took another increase in students and became the highest in total number of students enrolled in the course between the three majors. It had about 780 students in 2009, which became the highest amount for that year. Comparing to the other trends, Allied Health didn't really become a high contender until 2009, but wasn't the lowest course taken which made it a steady course throughout the enrollment trends of