Indicator 6.4
Graduate and Professional Degree Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity, Fall 2000 to 2008
The proportion of graduate and professional degree students by race/ethnicity varies across academic disciplines. For example, underrepresented students (Chicano/Latino, African-American and American Indian) comprised 5 percent of all students in engineering/computer sciences in Fall 2008 and 16 percent in professional fields.
The proportion of underrepresented students has increased slightly since 2000, from 9.7 percent to 10.6 percent of the total.
Enrollment of new international students has fluctuated over the past few years in response to the changing climate for international student recruitment and the ability of departments to fund the higher costs associated with international students. Unlike domestic graduate students, international students continue to pay non-resident tuition after their first year.
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Source: UCOP Corporate Student System. This system contains data on all degree-seeking students Universitywide.
These data come from the graduate and professional school admissions applications. These applications are managed at the campus level and typically require applicants to identify a single race/ethnicity group.
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.