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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 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 University of Southern California |
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| Completions | Completion Rate | |||||||
| Year | Gender | Cohort | 4-Year | 5-Year | 6-Year | 4-Year | 5-Year | 6-Year |
| 1996 | Men | 61 | 23 | 12 | 4 | 37.7% | 57.4% | 63.9% |
| Women | 93 | 55 | 17 | 3 | 59.1% | 77.4% | 80.6% | |
| Total | 154 | 78 | 107 | 114 | 50.6% | 69.5% | 74.0% | |
| 1997 | Men | 70 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 31.4% | 60.0% | 68.6% |
| Women | 80 | 42 | 14 | 1 | 52.5% | 70.0% | 71.3% | |
| Total | 150 | 64 | 98 | 105 | 42.7% | 65.3% | 70.0% | |
| 1998 | Men | 70 | 28 | 15 | 5 | 40.0% | 61.4% | 68.6% |
| Women | 122 | 63 | 22 | 6 | 51.6% | 69.7% | 74.6% | |
| Total | 192 | 91 | 128 | 139 | 47.4% | 66.7% | 72.4% | |
| 1999 | Men | 67 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 31.3% | 53.7% | 61.2% |
| Women | 118 | 64 | 23 | 7 | 54.2% | 73.7% | 79.7% | |
| Total | 185 | 85 | 123 | 135 | 45.9% | 66.5% | 73.0% | |
| 2000 | Men | 63 | 30 | 18 | 3 | 47.6% | 76.2% | 81.0% |
| Women | 135 | 88 | 23 | 6 | 65.2% | 82.2% | 86.7% | |
| Total | 198 | 118 | 159 | 168 | 59.6% | 80.3% | 84.8% | |
| 2001 | Men | 81 | 33 | 20 | 4 | 40.7% | 65.4% | 70.4% |
| Women | 105 | 64 | 16 | 5 | 61.0% | 76.2% | 81.0% | |
| Total | 186 | 97 | 133 | 142 | 52.2% | 71.5% | 76.3% | |