Indicator 4.2
Full-Time and Part-Time Undergraduate Enrollment, Fall 2000 to 2008
The number of undergraduates at UC has grown about 23 percent between 2000 and 2008, from 140,938 to 172,774 students.
By policy, UC expects undergraduate students to enroll full-time, although a small number of part-time enrollees are permitted in exceptional cases. Full-time enrollment is associated with higher graduation rates.
In 2008, approximately 97 percent of all UC undergraduates were enrolled full-time.
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Comparative data on the number of transfer students are not available nationally
Source: UCOP Corporate Student System. This system contains data on all degree-seeking students Universitywide.
Full-time students are those with 12 or more units; part-time students are those with fewer than 12 units. At Davis, part-time enrollment figures prior to Fall 2007 are inflated because some units earned in a basic writing course were not included in a student’s total number of units attempted per term. Consequently, the course loads of some students did not meet the minimum number of units needed to qualify them as full-time students, even though in terms of total actual units attempted their course load equaled or exceeded the required minimum. This oversight has been fixed as of Fall 2007.
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