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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 6 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 White 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 | 4,159 | 1,619 | 1,281 | 291 | 38.9% | 69.7% | 76.7% |
| Women | 5,028 | 2,753 | 1,109 | 190 | 54.8% | 76.8% | 80.6% | |
| Total | 9,187 | 4,372 | 6,762 | 7,243 | 47.6% | 73.6% | 78.8% | |
| 1997 | Men | 4,256 | 1,823 | 1,201 | 277 | 42.8% | 71.1% | 77.6% |
| Women | 5,076 | 2,930 | 1,033 | 143 | 57.7% | 78.1% | 80.9% | |
| Total | 9,332 | 4,753 | 6,987 | 7,407 | 50.9% | 74.9% | 79.4% | |
| 1998 | Men | 3,863 | 1,731 | 1,107 | 201 | 44.8% | 73.5% | 78.7% |
| Women | 4,810 | 2,778 | 1,020 | 131 | 57.8% | 79.0% | 81.7% | |
| Total | 8,673 | 4,509 | 6,636 | 6,968 | 52.0% | 76.5% | 80.3% | |
| 1999 | Men | 4,739 | 2,164 | 1,325 | 245 | 45.7% | 73.6% | 78.8% |
| Women | 5,553 | 3,307 | 1,126 | 149 | 59.6% | 79.8% | 82.5% | |
| Total | 10,292 | 5,471 | 7,922 | 8,316 | 53.2% | 77.0% | 80.8% | |
| 2000 | Men | 4,860 | 2,247 | 1,303 | 244 | 46.2% | 73.0% | 78.1% |
| Women | 5,612 | 3,438 | 1,114 | 123 | 61.3% | 81.1% | 83.3% | |
| Total | 10,472 | 5,685 | 8,102 | 8,469 | 54.3% | 77.4% | 80.9% | |
| 2001 | Men | 4,988 | 2,365 | 1,312 | 230 | 47.4% | 73.7% | 78.3% |
| Women | 5,824 | 3,629 | 1,025 | 144 | 62.3% | 79.9% | 82.4% | |
| Total | 10,812 | 5,994 | 8,331 | 8,705 | 55.4% | 77.1% | 80.5% | |