Studyportals has released a new analysis by using a huge amount of student search data to highlight the significant interest of students in certain streams of study. As per the report, following 10 streams have been identified as 'subject areas where student interest is growing, and where the global supply of programmes is lagging behind demand':

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  Data Science & Big Data

  
  


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  User Experience Design

  
  


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  Artificial Intelligence

  
  


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  Sustainable Development

  
  


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  Supply Chain Management & Logistics

  
  


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  Human Computer Interaction

  
  


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  Food Sciences

  
  


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  Business Intelligence & Analytics

  
  


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  International Business

  
  


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  Biotechnology

  
  

Specifically, User Experience Design stream is surging in demand as students' interest has risen by 400% in this stream during the past 04 years, as mentioned in the analysis of Studyportals.

The Studyportals has used two measures to determine these streams:

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  Student pageviews on Studyportals and

  
  


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  Total programmes linked to each subdisciplines on their portals.

  
  

These 10 streams of study have significantly higher demand for Bachelor's and Master's programmes than their available supply. As per the Studyportals, they provides a specific way for other universities to use this new data: "There is a lag between when the first universities introduce these courses, and when they become more mainstream. It is that lag, when student interest is rising, that can and should be shortened".