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Graduation Rates Detail for California State University, Long Beach

Graduation Rates for California State University, Long Beach

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 Black Students California State University, Long Beach
			Completions			Completion Rate
Year	Gender	Cohort	4-Year	5-Year	6-Year	4-Year	5-Year	6-Year
1996	Men	93	2	11	2	2.2%	14.0%	16.1%
	Women	195	9	25	31	4.6%	17.4%	33.3%
	Total	288	11	47	80	3.8%	16.3%	27.8%
1997	Men	87	4	12	6	4.6%	18.4%	25.3%
	Women	209	7	30	19	3.3%	17.7%	26.8%
	Total	296	11	53	78	3.7%	17.9%	26.4%
1998	Men	51	2	10	6	3.9%	23.5%	35.3%
	Women	167	14	34	17	8.4%	28.7%	38.9%
	Total	218	16	60	83	7.3%	27.5%	38.1%
1999	Men	44	2	5	3	4.5%	15.9%	22.7%
	Women	165	16	25	14	9.7%	24.8%	33.3%
	Total	209	18	48	65	8.6%	23.0%	31.1%
2000	Men	75	2	10	8	2.7%	16.0%	26.7%
	Women	171	20	40	17	11.7%	35.1%	45.0%
	Total	246	22	72	97	8.9%	29.3%	39.4%
2001	Men	105	9	14	9	8.6%	21.9%	30.5%
	Women	206	10	47	39	4.9%	27.7%	46.6%
	Total	311	19	80	128	6.1%	25.7%	41.2%

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