Average Graduation Rate At California Colleges

The graduation rate is a percentage of graduate candidates who complete their degree in expected completion timeIn general, the graduation rate is computed based on the completion in the 150% of normal time. For example, for the 4-years bachelor's degree programs, the number of completers who completed in 6 years is used to compute the graduation rate.

The average graduation rate of California colleges is 60.11%. It includes all institutions' rate (i.e. 4-years and 2-years or less) where the graduation data is available. In public colleges, the graduation rate is 43.39% and private schools' rate is 67.03%.

By gender, the female students' graduation rate is 72.99% and male students' rate is 67.80%.

The schools in below list are the top 5 California colleges that have the highest graduation rate. Stanford University has the highest graduation rate of 96% among California colleges. University of California-Berkeley and University of California-Los Angeles also have higher graduation rate of 93% and 92% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude colleges with less than 5,000 students. You can view more schools at California colleges with high graduation rate.

For the four-years California institutions where BS degree grants, the average graduation rate is 70.75%. 97,861 students graduated out of 138,319 candidates. 3,399 students are still enrolled in the schools and 10,080 students are no longer enrolled or transferred out to other institutions.

By completion time, 64,715 students have completed their degree in 4 years or less as the rate is 46.79% at California colleges. 26,282 students completed in 5 years and 6,681 students earned their BS degree in 6 years.

The following table summarizes the graduation rate and number of completers by gender and completion time for California collegesNumbers in parentheses in each column indicate the number of completers over candidates in the corresponding category.