5.6.7 Track women’s graduation rate

In 2025, Srinakharinwirot University (SWU) measured and tracked women's likelihood of graduating compared to men's, and had schemes in place to close the gaps that the data show. The Educational Support and Service Office publishes the number of new students and graduates by gender every year on its public Education Statistics page, and breaks down graduate numbers by faculty and subject group. The data show that women at SWU are more likely than men to complete their degrees: in 2025, women made up 62.7% of new students but 69.8% of bachelor's graduates. The data also show where women still graduate in smaller numbers, mainly in engineering and other science and technology fields. To close these gaps, SWU runs mentoring for women in technical fields, free counselling and mentoring for female students, and flexible academic rules that help all students finish their studies on time. All of the data and evidence below are publicly available.

Tracking graduates by gender, 2021–2025

The Education Statistics page reports the number of bachelor's graduates by gender for each academic year from 2021 (B.E. 2564) to 2025 (B.E. 2568). In academic year 2025, SWU had 6,032 bachelor's graduates: 4,210 women (70%) and 1,822 men (30%). Over the five years, women's share of graduates stayed between 68% and 70%: 3,465 of 4,956 graduates in 2021, 4,308 of 6,232 in 2022, 3,940 of 5,674 in 2023 and 3,727 of 5,443 in 2024. The University's graduate figures reported for indicator 5.5.1, which count all graduates in 2025, show the same pattern: 4,724 of 6,854 graduates, or 68.92%, were women. The highlighted figures show the number of female and male bachelor's graduates in academic year 2025.

Figure 1: Number of SWU bachelor's graduates by gender, academic years 2021–2025 (B.E. 2564–2568)

Source: https://edservices.op.swu.ac.th/EdData

Comparing women's likelihood of graduating with men's

The same page tracks new students by gender, which makes it possible to compare how likely women and men are to graduate. In 2025, 2,967 women (62.7%) and 1,764 men (37.3%) enrolled at SWU. From 2021 to 2025, women made up between 62.7% and 66.8% of new students each year (these figures do not include TCAS Round 3). In every year, women's share of graduates (68–70%) was higher than their share of new students. For example, women were 64.8% of the students who entered SWU in 2021, the cohort that normally completes a four-year degree in 2025, but 69.8% of the graduates in academic year 2025. This shows that women at SWU are more likely than men to graduate.

Figure 2: Number of new students who enrolled at SWU by gender, 2021–2025 (B.E. 2564–2568)

Source: https://edservices.op.swu.ac.th/EdData

Tracking by faculty to find where women still graduate in smaller numbers

The graduate statistics for academic year 2025 are also reported by faculty, in three subject groups. Women made up 71.7% of graduates in humanities and social sciences (2,892 of 4,035) and 69.1% in health sciences (501 of 725), but only 64.2% in science and technology (817 of 1,272). In the Faculty of Engineering, highlighted in Figure 3, women were 43.8% of graduates (130 of 297), and men outnumbered women. Women were also a minority of graduates from the Faculty of Physical Education programmes listed in the humanities and social sciences group (73 of 197). These results show SWU where schemes for women are needed most: in engineering, technical and sport-related fields.

Figure 3: Number of SWU bachelor's graduates by faculty and gender, academic year 2025 (B.E. 2568)

Source: https://edservices.op.swu.ac.th/EdData

Scheme 1: Mentoring women in electrical and technical fields

Electrical and technical work is a field in which women are traditionally underrepresented. In 2025, the Electrical Industrial Education major in the Department of Industrial Education, Faculty of Education, ran a mentoring scheme for its female students in which lecturers and senior students guided and supervised junior female students in real technical tasks. On 27 January 2025, female students joined the volunteer activity "Bringing Light Back to SWU" and repaired lamp posts on campus. From 28 to 30 March 2025, the Department ran the hands-on workshop "Using and Maintaining Electrical Appliances" at the Lopburi Home for Children and Families for 19 female students in Years 1–3 of the Industrial Education – Electrical major. This mentoring builds women's skills and confidence in a field where fewer women graduate, and helps them continue and complete their studies.

Figure 4: Female students in the Industrial Education – Electrical major servicing an air-conditioning unit during the workshop, 28–30 March 2025

Source: Department of Industrial Education, Faculty of Education, Srinakharinwirot University (2025)

Scheme 2: Free counselling and mentoring for female students

SWU SMILE, under the Division of Student Affairs, provides free psychological counselling for every SWU student who faces emotional, social, academic or adjustment difficulties. In 2025, women made up 69.7% of SWU SMILE service users, and 70% of its psychologists are women, so female students can be counselled by female professionals when they prefer. In November 2025, the Faculty of Humanities also ran the H Empathy Project, 4 mentoring workshops for first-year students in which women made up 85% of participants. Support of this kind helps students manage stress and stay in their studies until they graduate.

Figure 5: The SWU SMILE website, where students book free counselling with psychologists

Source: https://swusmile.swu.ac.th/psychologist?page=1

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Scheme 3: Flexible academic rules that help students finish on time

The Educational Support and Service Office also runs academic services that help students who are behind in their studies to complete their programmes. On 22 December 2025, the Office announced that students could apply to register for more credits than the normal limit in semester 2/2025 (round 2), from 22 December 2025 to 18 January 2026, through the SUPREME system. Earlier, on 23 April 2025, the Office extended the deadline for course withdrawal requests for semester 2/2024 to 25 April 2025. These services are open to all students, so women and men who need a heavier course load or more time can still finish their degrees on time.

Figure 6: Announcement on requests to register for more credits than the normal limit, semester 2/2025 (round 2), 22 December 2025 to 18 January 2026

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Linking the data and the schemes

In 2025, SWU measured and tracked women's likelihood of graduating compared to men's through gender data on new students and graduates that it publishes every year. The data show that women are more likely than men to graduate overall, but that fewer women graduate in engineering and other technical fields. SWU has schemes in place to close these gaps: mentoring for women in technical fields, free counselling and mentoring for female students, and flexible academic rules that help every student complete their degree. This information is publicly available on the SWU website and the University's official Facebook pages.