University of California 2009 Accountability Report

Indicator 6.9
Graduate Degrees Awarded by Discipline - UC and Comparison Institutions, 2006-07

Data visualization. please download the source data for accessible information.

The 10 UC campuses awarded 7,300 graduate degrees in 2006-07, including 3,200 doctoral degrees and 4,100 master's degrees.

Over 60 percent of UC's graduate degrees were awarded in STEM fields, which include life and physical sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Nearly two-thirds of all UC doctoral degrees were in STEM fields. These constitute nearly 70 percent of all STEM Ph.D.'s awarded in California.

By Campus
By-Campus chart

Source: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Graduation Rate Survey. Additional information can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS.

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a nonprofit association of 60 U.S. and two Canadian preeminent public and private research universities; six UC campuses are members (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara). The averages for the AAU public institutions is for all AAUs including the six UC campuses. Canadian institutions are excluded in the data presented. More information can be found, including a member list, at http://www.aau.edu.

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.