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Graduation Rates Detail for University of California System
Graduation Rates for University of California System
The data presented below are from a longitudinal report collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The report follows a group of full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students that started college in a given year. The chart shows the rate that the original cohort received their bachelor's degree in 5 years. The completion rates are the percentage of the cohort that completed within 4, 5, or 6 years. To calculate the rate, all completions up to and including that time-frame are used as the numerator. For example, based on a cohort of 100 students, if 25 students complete their bachelor's degree in 4 years, the 4-year completion rate is 25%. If 15 students take 5 years to complete their degree, the 5-year completion rate is 40%; that is 40% of the original cohort completed their degree within 5 years of starting. If 10 students take 6 years to complete, the 6-year completion rate is 50%. Select a year in the table to see the completions by ethnicity and gender for that cohort.| Graduation Rate for Freshmen Starting in Each Year Black Students University of California System |
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| Completions | Completion Rate | |||||||
| Year | Gender | Cohort | 4-Year | 5-Year | 6-Year | 4-Year | 5-Year | 6-Year |
| 1996 | Men | 310 | 67 | 81 | 19 | 21.6% | 47.7% | 53.9% |
| Women | 600 | 175 | 194 | 50 | 29.2% | 61.5% | 69.8% | |
| Total | 910 | 242 | 517 | 586 | 26.6% | 56.8% | 64.4% | |
| 1997 | Men | 303 | 74 | 88 | 25 | 24.4% | 53.5% | 61.7% |
| Women | 577 | 199 | 185 | 31 | 34.5% | 66.6% | 71.9% | |
| Total | 880 | 273 | 546 | 602 | 31.0% | 62.0% | 68.4% | |
| 1998 | Men | 227 | 57 | 71 | 21 | 25.1% | 56.4% | 65.6% |
| Women | 469 | 179 | 144 | 21 | 38.2% | 68.9% | 73.3% | |
| Total | 696 | 236 | 451 | 493 | 33.9% | 64.8% | 70.8% | |
| 1999 | Men | 262 | 57 | 88 | 16 | 21.8% | 55.3% | 61.5% |
| Women | 508 | 206 | 143 | 29 | 40.6% | 68.7% | 74.4% | |
| Total | 770 | 263 | 494 | 539 | 34.2% | 64.2% | 70.0% | |
| 2000 | Men | 323 | 71 | 102 | 26 | 22.0% | 53.6% | 61.6% |
| Women | 538 | 224 | 144 | 18 | 41.6% | 68.4% | 71.7% | |
| Total | 861 | 295 | 541 | 585 | 34.3% | 62.8% | 67.9% | |
| 2001 | Men | 319 | 85 | 95 | 17 | 26.6% | 56.4% | 61.8% |
| Women | 521 | 239 | 129 | 25 | 45.9% | 70.6% | 75.4% | |
| Total | 840 | 324 | 548 | 590 | 38.6% | 65.2% | 70.2% | |