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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%.

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Graduation Rate for Freshmen Starting in Each Year Native American Students University of California System
			Completions			Completion Rate
Year	Gender	Cohort	4-Year	5-Year	6-Year	4-Year	5-Year	6-Year
1996	Men	103	23	26	14	22.3%	47.6%	61.2%
	Women	141	58	23	10	41.1%	57.4%	64.5%
	Total	244	81	130	154	33.2%	53.3%	63.1%
1997	Men	66	19	11	4	28.8%	45.5%	51.5%
	Women	111	49	26	7	44.1%	67.6%	73.9%
	Total	177	68	105	116	38.4%	59.3%	65.5%
1998	Men	61	15	22	6	24.6%	60.7%	70.5%
	Women	102	39	33	3	38.2%	70.6%	73.5%
	Total	163	54	109	118	33.1%	66.9%	72.4%
1999	Men	47	15	11	4	31.9%	55.3%	63.8%
	Women	91	39	21	5	42.9%	65.9%	71.4%
	Total	138	54	86	95	39.1%	62.3%	68.8%
2000	Men	61	18	23	2	29.5%	67.2%	70.5%
	Women	100	48	22	5	48.0%	70.0%	75.0%
	Total	161	66	111	118	41.0%	68.9%	73.3%
2001	Men	74	26	16	4	35.1%	56.8%	62.2%
	Women	97	42	25	5	43.3%	69.1%	74.2%
	Total	171	68	109	118	39.8%	63.7%	69.0%

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