Dr Wilcox, principal lecturer at the University of Brighton's school of applied science, is leading the research.
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management .
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Just 30% of male school-leavers applied to university for autumn 2012, compared to 40% of female school-leavers, according to Ucas.
But new technology developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science could finally help solve the problem.
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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of almost 5, 000 students.
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Donald Goldfarb, the interim dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the latest project is aimed at helping the university's engineering school overcome its biggest hurdle in reaching the topmost echelon of the field: its relatively small size.
Mr Gove gave the example of the US state of Massachusetts as an example of a school system that had applied the principles of a "knowledge-based curriculum".
On top of her ever-busy school work and purposeful extracurriculars, she applied a substantial amount of focused time and energy to prepare her early application.
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The private, but not the public, school provides an intense form of therapy known as applied behavior analysis.
In an interview with CNN, certain details of Jarrah's studies at the school were confirmed by Hans-Gerhardt Husung, president of the University of Applied Sciences.
In 1973, Allan Bakke applied for medical school at the University of California at Davis and was rejected.
Queen Elizabeth School was one of two schools in Warwickshire which had applied for funds, but the only one that was successful.
Narendra studied engineering, then applied to B-school with the avowed goal of eventually starting his own agribusiness venture.
It sort of takes that same kind of energy that we saw applied to the old school musicals and uses it in that film.
Dave Logan, a professor at USC Marshall School of Business, tells a story about a woman who had applied for a job at his consulting firm.
In 2008, with full support from NBC Universal and personal support from her husband, she applied to Columbia Business School based on the reputation of their administration, student-body and marketing curriculum.
While the new applied sciences school is expected to drive up the number of engineering graduate students in the city by 70% next year, some students are fueling growth on their own, little by little.
Only nine of the county's secondary schools and only one primary school have applied for academy status, he said.
At the University of Chicago, 430 PhD candidates applied for spots in the school's history division, up 6% over last year.
When she applied for a school place, Mrs Patel gave the address of her mother, which was within the school's catchment area, rather than the family address.
Applied to the high school scenario, the men are the equivalent of students and the women are the schools.
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Applied Marketing Science of Waltham, Massachusetts is working with MIT's Sloan School of Management on a Web tool that turns idea-generation into a challenging game, where players are rewarded for building on the suggestions of others and earn points that translate into cash or prizes.
Their parents have applied for Harlem Success Academy, a highly regarded charter school where "about 95 percent of the kids are at grade level, " Sackler said in an interview with CNN.
Archie Pitts, a professor of finance at Warwick Business School, says that this would be likely only if all managers had doctorates in applied mathematics.
They may be taught the basics of interest rates as a mathematical principle, but applied economics is a topic often left until high school for study.
Ms Winfrey pledged to build the academy after a meeting with former South African President Nelson Mandela six years ago and personally interviewed many of the South African girls from low income families who applied for the initial 150 places at the school.
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