Grad Applicant Count Report

The Grad Applicant Count report provides a high-level view of graduate admissions for one or more academic years.  You can view headcounts for applied, admitted, and SIRed, as well as admit rate and yield rate for graduate applicants by year, semester, derived residency, and degree level/goal by college/school, division, department, major, academic plan, and academic subplan.

Filters

You can filter data in the report by academic year, derived residency, semester, and degree level.

Filters for Grad Applicant Count report

Reports

The tabular reports for headcount by applied, admitted, and SIRed are organized by college in the rows and year in the columns. You can drill down on college/school to see division, department, and intended majors.

Applicant Headcount chart from Grad Applicant Count report 

The trend reports for admit rate and yield rate are at the college level and do not have a drill down by major.

 Line chart showing trend of Admit Rate in Grad Applicant Count report

Sample Questions

How many prospective graduate students applied for entry into UC Berkeley for 2022-23?

  1. Select 2022-23 for the Academic Year and click Apply
  2. The Applicant Headcount tabular chart on the left shows the applicant headcount by school/college and the total for campus. A total of 40,881 students applied to graduate programs (that have data included in this dashboard) for the 2022-23 academic year.

Applicant Headcount chart from Grad Applicant Count report

How many of these applicants were admitted? How does this admit rate vary?

  1. The Admitted Headcount chart shows the number of applicants admitted by school or college.
  2. The Admit Rate line chart shows the admit rate for each school or college so you can make comparisons by school/college, by year and overall trend.

How many admitted students accepted their admissions offer by submitting a Statement of Intent to Register (SIR)? How does the yield rate vary?

  1. The Statement of Intent to Register Headcount chart shows the number of admitted students that submitted a statement of intent to register by school or college.
  2. The Yield Rate chart shows the yield rate for each school or college so you can make comparisons by school/college, by year and overall trend.
  3. With so many lines in the chart, it can be difficult to see the college or school you are interested in. Use the Export link below the chart to export data. You can export to a formatted file, e.g. PDF, Excel, etc. or as raw data in a comma separated values (CSV) file.

What were that subplan's admit and yield rates?

  1. Right-click on the Applied Headcount column, select Include column, and select Admit Rate.
  2. Right-click on the Admit Rate column, select Include column, and select Yield Rate.