New Performance Measures for California’s Four-Year Colleges

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy

June 25, 2013

Governor Brown’s Proposed Budget Would Have Created Performance Targets

Number of Graduates… …who started there as freshmen …who transferred from CCCs …who are low-Income

Graduation Rates Of freshmen: four years Of transfers: two years

Number of Transfers in from CCCs Degrees per 100 FTE Enrollment

Final Budget Establishes Measures, but No Explicit Targets (Yet)

The plan requires UC and CSU to report: Enrollment numbers, with sub-groups Completions, including post-baccalaureate

degrees Separate accounting of STEM degrees Graduation rates and an “on-track” measure Efficiency:

Funding per degree Credits per degree

Enrollment Transfer students:

Number enrolled each year Proportion of total undergraduate enrollment

Low-income students (received a Pell Grant at any time): Number enrolled each year Proportion of total student population

Completion of Degrees Number of degrees conferred to students who:

…started as freshmen at the university. …transferred in. …are low low-income students. …are graduate students.

Number of degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields for: Undergraduates Graduate students Low-income students

Graduation Rates For Freshmen (all, and separately for low-income):

Four-year rates Six-year rates (CSU only)

For junior-level transfers (all, and separately for low-income) Two-year rates Three-year rates (CSU only)

On track measure: Proportion of freshmen who earn enough credits in the first year to graduate within four years.

Efficiency Measures Total funding received divided by degrees conferred. Expenditures for undergraduate education divided by

undergraduate degrees conferred. Total course credits accumulated by degree

recipients (presumably undergraduates) for those who Entered as freshmen Transferred in

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