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Graduation Rates Detail for University of Southern California

Graduation Rates for University of Southern California

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%.

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Graduation Rate for Freshmen
Starting in Each Year
Students at
University of Southern California
  Completions Completion Rate
Year Ethnicity Cohort 4-Year 5-Year 6-Year 4-Year 5-Year 6-Year
1996 Asian/Pac Is 719 410 114 37 57.0% 72.9% 78.0%
  Black 154 78 29 7 50.6% 69.5% 74.0%
  Latino 401 191 74 19 47.6% 66.1% 70.8%
  Nat Amer 22 12 4 1 54.5% 72.7% 77.3%
  White 1,346 813 180 50 60.4% 73.8% 77.5%
  Total 2,642 1,504 1,905 2,019 56.9% 72.1% 76.4%
1997 Asian/Pac Is 672 432 105 32 64.3% 79.9% 84.7%
  Black 150 64 34 7 42.7% 65.3% 70.0%
  Latino 352 175 79 16 49.7% 72.2% 76.7%
  Nat Amer 21 11 2 0 52.4% 61.9% 61.9%
  White 1,432 912 206 50 63.7% 78.1% 81.6%
  Total 2,627 1,594 2,020 2,125 60.7% 76.9% 80.9%
1998 Asian/Pac Is 686 431 121 33 62.8% 80.5% 85.3%
  Black 192 91 37 11 47.4% 66.7% 72.4%
  Latino 408 221 93 14 54.2% 77.0% 80.4%
  Nat Amer 27 16 7 0 59.3% 85.2% 85.2%
  White 1,548 995 232 45 64.3% 79.3% 82.2%
  Total 2,861 1,754 2,244 2,347 61.3% 78.4% 82.0%
1999 Asian/Pac Is 577 367 97 32 63.6% 80.4% 86.0%
  Black 185 85 38 12 45.9% 66.5% 73.0%
  Latino 364 201 84 16 55.2% 78.3% 82.7%
  Nat Amer 28 16 4 2 57.1% 71.4% 78.6%
  White 1,510 960 258 37 63.6% 80.7% 83.1%
  Total 2,664 1,629 2,110 2,209 61.1% 79.2% 82.9%
2000 Asian/Pac Is 634 426 108 23 67.2% 84.2% 87.9%
  Black 198 118 41 9 59.6% 80.3% 84.8%
  Latino 355 219 58 9 61.7% 78.0% 80.6%
  Nat Amer 20 10 3 2 50.0% 65.0% 75.0%
  White 1,386 919 208 37 66.3% 81.3% 84.0%
  Total 2,593 1,692 2,110 2,190 65.3% 81.4% 84.5%
2001 Asian/Pac Is 556 377 96 13 67.8% 85.1% 87.4%
  Black 186 97 36 9 52.2% 71.5% 76.3%
  Latino 356 219 69 10 61.5% 80.9% 83.7%
  Nat Amer 21 14 1 1 66.7% 71.4% 76.2%
  White 1,356 938 189 38 69.2% 83.1% 85.9%
  Total 2,475 1,645 2,036 2,107 66.5% 82.3% 85.1%
 
 

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