Common Data Set

Overview

Numerous publishers collect information each year for their college guide and ranking publications through lengthy campus questionnaires. To reduce the amount of time and effort required to respond to duplicate questions on multiple surveys, publishers and the education community collaborated to produce a standard format (the Common Data Set) to capture most of the requested data. The publishers heading this effort are The College Board, Thomson-Peterson's, and U.S. News and World Report.

The Common Data Set is organized around the following topics:

  1. general campus
  2. enrollment and persistence
  3. first-time, first-year (freshmen) admissions
  4. transfer admissions
  5. academic offerings and policies
  6. student life
  7. annual expenses
  8. financial aid
  9. instructional faculty and class size
  10. degrees conferred
  11. definitions

To view a UC Berkeley Common Data Set report, select a year from the list below.

The data will open in Microsoft Excel (Excel Viewer is available from the Microsoft website). Each section is on an individual sheet within the workbook (see the tabs at the bottom of the sheet).

UC Berkeley's data is the result of a collaborative effort by the Office of Planning and Analysis, Office of Undergraduate Admissions, and the Financial Aid and Scholarships Office.

Annual Common Data Set Reports