وفي العام الدراسية 1996-1997، كانت المرأة تمثل 53.74 في المائة من الطلاب المسجلين و 56.33 في المائة من الناجحين.
It appears from these data that female students perform better academically than male students in COU programmes, given that women represent a higher percentage of students who pass the course than of the total number of students enrolled, both in 1996-1997 and in 1998-99.