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Graduation Rates Detail for California State University System
Graduation Rates for California State University 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 California State University 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 | 827 | 19 | 64 | 54 | 2.3% | 10.0% | 16.6% |
| Women | 1,452 | 60 | 178 | 142 | 4.1% | 16.4% | 26.2% | |
| Total | 2,279 | 79 | 321 | 517 | 3.5% | 14.1% | 22.7% | |
| 1997 | Men | 783 | 28 | 88 | 67 | 3.6% | 14.8% | 23.4% |
| Women | 1,476 | 64 | 202 | 144 | 4.3% | 18.0% | 27.8% | |
| Total | 2,259 | 92 | 382 | 593 | 4.1% | 16.9% | 26.3% | |
| 1998 | Men | 719 | 22 | 76 | 72 | 3.1% | 13.6% | 23.6% |
| Women | 1,289 | 79 | 186 | 115 | 6.1% | 20.6% | 29.5% | |
| Total | 2,008 | 101 | 363 | 550 | 5.0% | 18.1% | 27.4% | |
| 1999 | Men | 769 | 23 | 85 | 62 | 3.0% | 14.0% | 22.1% |
| Women | 1,296 | 89 | 184 | 112 | 6.9% | 21.1% | 29.7% | |
| Total | 2,065 | 112 | 381 | 555 | 5.4% | 18.5% | 26.9% | |
| 2000 | Men | 793 | 17 | 101 | 88 | 2.1% | 14.9% | 26.0% |
| Women | 1,397 | 108 | 233 | 148 | 7.7% | 24.4% | 35.0% | |
| Total | 2,190 | 125 | 459 | 695 | 5.7% | 21.0% | 31.7% | |
| 2001 | Men | 926 | 40 | 120 | 67 | 4.3% | 17.3% | 24.5% |
| Women | 1,520 | 97 | 266 | 160 | 6.4% | 23.9% | 34.4% | |
| Total | 2,446 | 137 | 523 | 750 | 5.6% | 21.4% | 30.7% | |