Indicator 2.8
Distribution of Undergraduates by Parent Income, 1999-00 to 2007-08
The trend in the income distribution of UC undergraduates is one indicator of how well the University's financial aid programs have enabled UC to remain financially accessible to students at every income level.
Despite increases in both the University's total cost of attendance (see Indicator 2.2) and net cost of attendance (see Indicator 2.6), the income distribution of all UC undergraduates has changed little since 2000.
More than 25 percent of undergraduates have parents with annual income below $46,000.
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Source: UCOP Corporate Student System. This system contains data on all degree-seeking students Universitywide.
Figures are in constant inflation-adjusted 2007 dollars using California CPI-U. The decline in the number of unknown incomes since 1999-00 reflects improvements in the University’s ability to consolidate parent income data from multiple sources and to estimate the income of students with missing data.
In years prior to 2007-08, figures for San Diego overstated the number of students in the $93,000 to $139,000 bracket and understated the number of students in the above $139,000 bracket due to limitations in the data provided to the UCOP Corporate Student System. These limitations have been fixed for 2007-08 and subsequent years, which contributes to the apparent increase in higher-income families in 2007-08.
You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.