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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 Native American 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 | 93 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 4.3% | 23.7% | 25.8% |
| Women | 166 | 12 | 35 | 23 | 7.2% | 28.3% | 42.2% | |
| Total | 259 | 16 | 69 | 94 | 6.2% | 26.6% | 36.3% | |
| 1997 | Men | 97 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 9.3% | 21.6% | 35.1% |
| Women | 186 | 20 | 40 | 17 | 10.8% | 32.3% | 41.4% | |
| Total | 283 | 29 | 81 | 111 | 10.2% | 28.6% | 39.2% | |
| 1998 | Men | 92 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 8.7% | 19.6% | 31.5% |
| Women | 136 | 14 | 21 | 12 | 10.3% | 25.7% | 34.6% | |
| Total | 228 | 22 | 53 | 76 | 9.6% | 23.2% | 33.3% | |
| 1999 | Men | 94 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 5.3% | 10.6% | 28.7% |
| Women | 156 | 14 | 31 | 14 | 9.0% | 28.8% | 37.8% | |
| Total | 250 | 19 | 55 | 86 | 7.6% | 22.0% | 34.4% | |
| 2000 | Men | 92 | 7 | 18 | 8 | 7.6% | 27.2% | 35.9% |
| Women | 147 | 22 | 32 | 12 | 15.0% | 36.7% | 44.9% | |
| Total | 239 | 29 | 79 | 99 | 12.1% | 33.1% | 41.4% | |
| 2001 | Men | 88 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 5.7% | 20.5% | 34.1% |
| Women | 136 | 22 | 33 | 13 | 16.2% | 40.4% | 50.0% | |
| Total | 224 | 27 | 73 | 98 | 12.1% | 32.6% | 43.8% | |