Master's degree programs in computer science educate corporate IT managers for both business and non-business spheres. In current practice, the demand for women in this field is increasing, and therefore we analyze what the gender structure of master's study students looks like and their results.

From our analysis, we present the following research questions:
- RQ1: What is the gender structure of informatics degree programs and how has it evolved over time?
- RQ2: What is the average time to successfully complete a master's degree in computer science programs and does it vary by gender?
- RQ3: What is the Completion Rate of Master's Degree in Computer Science Programs and does it vary by gender and what is its evolution over time?
- RQ4: What is the Failure Rate of Master's Degrees in Computer Science Programs and does it vary by gender?

The source for our research and analysis is data from the university system. In total, there were 6.302 records of Master's students and their outcomes. The structure of the record included data on the start of the study, the field and programme of study, gender, semester of graduation and the success of graduation - successful or unsuccessful. We first disaggregated the student data by year of entry and then calculated the required characteristics. We compared the measured values into a time series, the trend of which was analysed using the least squares method. To determine the status, we analysed a time series of data on students in the graduate computer science programs of the Faculty of Computer Science and Statistics for the period 2009-2025 - here the data are related to the enrolment and the structure of students in the course. For the analysis in the other research questions dealing with learning outcomes, we have excluded those records of students who entered the master studies in the academic year 2022/2023, as representative numbers of their learning outcomes are not yet available - the period of a full master studies is two years, but most students study for longer. We then calculated the completion rates experienced by males and females in the MSc Computer Science programmes (RQ2, RQ3, RQ4) based on the information on graduation. For the analyses in the case of RQ1, we used a simple data series that tracks the evolution of the gender structure of master's degree programs.

The analysis was carried out using the functions of MS Excel, especially contingency tables. Some outputs were programmed in R and Python programming language.
The results of our investigation show that the gender structure of students in Master of Computer Science programs is increasing - by 14 percentage points over the period under study (RQ1). The average duration of study is 0.12 semesters longer for men than for women (RQ2). The completion rate is about 6 percentage points higher for women (RQ3). The duration of the failed master's degree is almost four semesters and is about 0.21 semesters higher for women than for men.

Keywords: Gender structure in informatics studies, completion rate.