Can I find retention rates for the College of Chemistry in Cal Answers for both Freshman and Transfer students?

Yes, from the Student Demographics and Outcomes subject area navigate to the Graduation, Retention & Time to Degree dashboard and choose either the UG Retention or UG Retention by Multiple Fields tab to pull the latest retention rates (1-yr, 2-yr, 3-yr, etc.) for freshmen and transfers who entered in the College of Chemistry.

Graduation, Retention & Time to Degree Dashboard, UG Retention Report filtering section 

Filtering selection includes prompts for:

  • Entry Year & Semester
  • Entry Status - New Freshman or Transfer
  • Gender - Decline to State, Female or male
  • Residency -Nonresident or Resident 
  • 4-, 9-, or 16-Value Ethnicity - includes International
  • Entry College - 5 UG Colleges and Haas

This Cal Answers bookmark link will take you directly to the UG Retention report showing data on freshman students who entered in the College of Chemistry. To see this for transfer students, change the Entry Status prompt.  To see this data for your college filter on the Entry College prompt.

Retention Data Considerations

Note that the retention rate data in this dashboard is NOT based on exit college and is instead based on entry college (as of the end of students' first regular semester--i.e., not summer if the student took part in a summer program prior to matriculating).

What this means then is that the College of Chemistry receives graduation rate "credit" for any student who enters the college of chemistry and graduated from UC Berkeley, even if that student switched colleges. However, this can cut the other way also. That is, students who leave the College of Chemistry and then drop out or stop-out will be factored into the College of Chemistry graduation and retention rates. Finally, students who flow into the College of Chemistry after the end of their first term at Berkeley are also not captured in your graduation rates.

If you are interested in both the inflow and outflow of students by college, please see the Major Migration & Persistence graphic that is outside of Cal Answers

Note that the undergraduate time to degree data, which is shown on the last tab of the Graduation, Retention & Time to Degree dashboard represents a set of metrics that are based on degree recipients (i.e., an "exit cohort" of students). Thus, that data is only for College of Chemistry degree recipients.