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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 White 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 | 744 | 413 | 118 | 29 | 55.5% | 71.4% | 75.3% |
| Women | 602 | 400 | 62 | 21 | 66.4% | 76.7% | 80.2% | |
| Total | 1,346 | 813 | 993 | 1,043 | 60.4% | 73.8% | 77.5% | |
| 1997 | Men | 736 | 417 | 129 | 27 | 56.7% | 74.2% | 77.9% |
| Women | 696 | 495 | 77 | 23 | 71.1% | 82.2% | 85.5% | |
| Total | 1,432 | 912 | 1,118 | 1,168 | 63.7% | 78.1% | 81.6% | |
| 1998 | Men | 813 | 491 | 140 | 22 | 60.4% | 77.6% | 80.3% |
| Women | 735 | 504 | 92 | 23 | 68.6% | 81.1% | 84.2% | |
| Total | 1,548 | 995 | 1,227 | 1,272 | 64.3% | 79.3% | 82.2% | |
| 1999 | Men | 804 | 473 | 158 | 24 | 58.8% | 78.5% | 81.5% |
| Women | 706 | 487 | 100 | 13 | 69.0% | 83.1% | 85.0% | |
| Total | 1,510 | 960 | 1,218 | 1,255 | 63.6% | 80.7% | 83.1% | |
| 2000 | Men | 726 | 435 | 133 | 21 | 59.9% | 78.2% | 81.1% |
| Women | 660 | 484 | 75 | 16 | 73.3% | 84.7% | 87.1% | |
| Total | 1,386 | 919 | 1,127 | 1,164 | 66.3% | 81.3% | 84.0% | |
| 2001 | Men | 694 | 426 | 122 | 29 | 61.4% | 79.0% | 83.1% |
| Women | 662 | 512 | 67 | 9 | 77.3% | 87.5% | 88.8% | |
| Total | 1,356 | 938 | 1,127 | 1,165 | 69.2% | 83.1% | 85.9% | |