Our Berkeley Data Digest

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The information on this site is a distillation of the tens of thousands of stories playing out every day in Berkeley’s teaching, research, and public service. We use it to track our aspirations, improve our operations, and find new ways to change the world. This is Our Berkeley.

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Affordability & Undergrad Cost of Attendance

The Affordability & Undergrad Cost of Attendance dashboard displays trend data on the Berkeley undergraduate student budget, including housing, food, transportation, books, supplies, and personal expenses. It also includes Berkeley's loan and work expectation trend, as well as a peer comparison of student debt at graduation.

Class Size

The Class Size dashboard shows data about UC Berkeley's class sizes over the past three years, from several different perspectives. It displays data by course level; student level; the college, school, or division of a student's major; and freshman or transfer entry type.

Degree Recipients by Major

The Degree Recipients by Major dashboard displays information on the number of degree recipients by major, degree level, division, department, entry status, residency, ethnicity, gender identity, and STEM status. This dashboard also lets you compare time to degree for freshman and transfer entrants, by several factors. It also contains data on minors awarded, as well as the co-occurrence frequency of various major and minor programs.

Disaggregated Graduation Rates

The Disaggregated Graduation Rates dashboard shows data for undergrads in the last 10 entering Fall cohorts. For both freshman and transfer entrants, this dashboard breaks out the data by various demographic categories, including race/ethnicity, gender identity, parental education, and EOP eligibility.

First Destination Survey

The UC Berkeley Career Center's Where Do Cal Grads Go? dashboard shows post-graduation plans and career-related activities for the five most recent cohorts of graduating seniors. This dashboard includes both employment and graduate school data, broken out by college, major, and residency.

GPA by Major

The GPA by Major dashboard displays aggregated grade point averages (GPA), standard deviations, and headcounts for bachelor's degree recipients in UC Berkeley undergraduate major programs over the last 10 years.

Grades by Course

The Grades by Course dashboard shows the letter grade average, median, and distribution for a selected term and undergraduate-level course. This allows students to provide context for their grades within the overall set of grades awarded for those courses.

Graduation & Retention

The Graduation & Retention Rates dashboard shows data for undergraduate freshman and transfer entrants who’ve entered Berkeley over the last 10 years. It can display this data by entry type, ethnicity, gender identity, residency, and entry college.

Historical Enrollment

The Historical Enrollment dashboard shows UC Berkeley's enrolled student counts since the university's first class entered in 1869. It displays this data by student level, gender identity, and when available, ethnicity and tuition/fee payer status.

Of Every 100 Undergrads

The Of Every 100 Undergraduates dashboard provides a quick overview of UC Berkeley's undergraduate population. It displays data for freshman and transfer entry status, gender identity, ethnicity, residency, age, first-generation college status, Pell Grant recipient status, financial aid awards, one-year retention, graduation rates, and university housing.

Pell Grant Recipients

The Pell Grant Recipients dashboard displays count and trend data about UC Berkeley’s undergraduate Pell Grant recipients, for both freshman and transfer entrants. It also provides comparisons with peer institutions on Pell recipient counts, percentages, and 6-year graduation rates.

Staff Headcount

The Staff Headcount dashboard shows information about UC Berkeley's non-academic staff, on a headcount basis, for each of the last 10 fall terms. This dashboard displays data by control unit, division, department, job family, and job function. It also includes peer comparisons of student to staff ratios.

Student Enrollment

The Student Enrollment dashboard displays data about UC Berkeley's enrolled undergraduate and graduate students by student level, ethnicity, gender, tuition/fee residency, and academic division, as spring, fall, and year-average headcounts. It also includes trends on incoming fall undergraduate cohorts, for freshman, transfer, and other entrants.

Student Experience

The Student Experience dashboard displays highlights from the UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) results, broken out by freshman or transfer entry type, residency, and race/ethnicity. UCUES questions shown include perceptions of Berkeley as a welcoming campus, respect rates, academic experience, obstacles to success, and availability of courses.

Student Majors

The Student Majors dashboard displays 10 years of information on the number of registered undergraduate and graduate students in each academic major program by student level, academic division, academic department, freshman or transfer entry type, ethnicity, and gender identity.

Teaching Activity

The Teaching Activity dashboard shows the last 10 years of student credit hours earned, which is a measure of both students' work toward a degree and of faculty teaching workload. This dashboard displays SCH data for both undergraduate and graduate students, by course level, instructor type, academic division, and department.

Undergrad Admissions

The Undergraduate Admissions dashboard presents 10 years of data on UC Berkeley's undergraduate applicants, admits, and statements of intent to register, broken out by entry college and freshman or transfer entry type. It includes counts, admission rates (the percentage of applicants who are offered admission), yield rates (the percentage of admitted students with a current statement of intent to register), and prior school GPA ranges. For transfer students, it also includes counts by California community college.

Undergrad Entry Type

The Undergraduate Entry Type dashboard shows the most recent 10 years of counts, percentages, graduation rates, and first-year retention rates for undergrads who entered as either freshmen or transfer students. This dashboard can display data broken out by ethnicity, gender identity, first-generation college graduate status, registration status, tuition residency, and UC application fee waiver status (an indicator of family income). It also includes links to other Our Berkeley dashboards that include data by undergraduate entry type.

Undergrad Home Location

The Undergraduate Home Location dashboard shows maps of California resident and out-of-state domestic undergrads by their county and state of residence at time of application, for the most recent 10 fall terms. It includes both counts and percentages by California county and state.

Undergrad Major Migration

The Undergraduate Major Migration dashboard shows entering undergraduate cohorts since Fall 2010 by intended major, declared major(s), and major(s) of the degree awarded, if there was one. This dashboard displays data by freshman or transfer entry type, as either annual trends or 5-year aggregates. For students who change from their intended or declared major, it also indicates the top five other departments of those new majors.

Undergrad Multiple Majors

The Undergraduate Multiple Majors dashboard displays information for the most recent five years, about the combinations of major programs that undergraduates pursue. The dashboard includes matrices of co-occurring majors within the same or different (or both) academic divisions. It also shows the top major programs with the most multiple majors over time, as well as a comparison of single and multiple major counts and percentages by academic division, department, and major.

Undergrad STEM

The Undergraduate STEM Students dashboard displays data about undergrads in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at UC Berkeley. This dashboard includes peer comparisons for both women and underrepresented minorities, STEM pipeline percentages, current term data by gender identity and ethnicity, and the most recent five years of degree data by gender identity and ethnicity.

The Office of Planning & Analysis welcomes your questions and suggestions for future development.