UCLA Graduation Stats

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>The following data comes from The Education trust (<a href="http://www.collegeresults.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.collegeresults.org&lt;/a&gt;); this webite was brought to my attention by one of my teachers. It is quite interesting.</p>

<p>Here are the stats for UCLA:</p>

<p>Graduation rate in:
4 years --> 52.9%
5 years --> 83.8%
6 years --> 86.7%</p>

<p>In 2003:</p>

<p>83.6% of males graduated within six years
89.1% of females graduated within six years
89.4% of "Whites" graduated within six years
90.2% of Asians graduated within six years
80% of Native Americans graduated within six years
78.9% of Latinos graduated within six years
73.7% of African Americans graduated within six years</p>

<p>The site also does other breakdowns, including SAT, financial assistance, etc.</p>

<p>Yet I wonder how reliable these stats are.</p>

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<p>52.9% seems a little too low, but i do think that its tough to graduate from ucla in 4 years simply because classes are so impacted.</p>

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<p>The general ed. classes? Or the upper division courses?</p>

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<p>well I heard that majoring in a non-science and being pre-med can be a big problem at UCLA</p>

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<p>Oh, that royally sucks. Even in the upper division classes? I'm applying as a poli sci major.</p>

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<p>Wow, that's pretty terrible... I'm taking summer courses to stay on top of my degree requirements, and I'll probably need five years to graduate anyways.</p>

<p>However, have you considered the possibility of students wanting to stay at UCLA or not wanting to enter "the real world" to the extent that they're deliberately postponing their graduation?</p>

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<p>as one of those non-science major pre-meds, celebrian, yes it is... :)</p>

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<p>I don't think deliberate postponement can be a big contributor to the issue. I mean, it's a great school, but those people avoiding the real world are probably a small minority. What's your major Icarus?</p>

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<p>I'm a philosophy major.</p>

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<p>ok i think i might have just messed up last time or something, but i had priority registration, and when i logged on to register 1 hour after my priority pass started, the poli sci class that i wanted was priority capped already (they only allow a certain amount of priority students to register so they dont fill up the entire class). then by the time my real pass came along, the class was full already. yup. im a poli sci major too</p>

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<p>^^^^^^^ the class im talking about was a lower-division course too (poli sci 20 - international relations)</p>