Edumap

Women are underrepresented at Swiss universities in STEM courses (STEM: science, technology, engineering, mathematics). High schools play an important role for tertiary study choice. However, schools often do not have access to systematic data that show how many of their own graduates go on to study in a STEM field.

This is the starting point for Edumap: Using new data from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, the project measures the gender difference in STEM study choice per school and analyses, which measures contribute to students, and especially female students, being more likely to pursue a STEM study track at university.

Edumap shares the results of this analysis with 72 high schools from German-speaking Switzerland via the website external page www.edumap.ch. On their own school profile, school board members can find out how many of their graduates go on to study STEM at one of the two universities. The school profiles are updated annually with the latest data. Edumap also offers interested schools the opportunity to jointly implement a STEM promotion measure and have it analysed from summer 2023.

Edumap is supported by external page Dr. Michael Siegenthaler (ETH Zurich) and external page Prof. Ulf Zölitz (University of Zurich). The project is financially supported by ETH Zurich, the Federal Office for Gender Equality and the Ernst Göhner Foundation.