University of California Accountability Report 2026


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Chapter 1:

Impact

CALIFORNIA ECONOMIC IMPACT
1.1.1
The economic impact of UC in California
1.1.2
UC impact — a regional approach to demonstrating the University's impact on communities
UNDERGRADUATE RETURN ON INVESTMENT
1.2.1
California comparison on UC undergraduate alumni impact in California (UC Information Center dashboard)
UC's WORKFORCE IMPACT
1.3.1
UC alumni locations with top employers, job titles, and estimated earnings (UC Information Center dashboard)
1.3.2
Industry of employment of UC bachelor’s graduates (UC Information Center dashboard)
1.3.3
Industry of employment of UC graduate academic students
1.3.4
Industry of employment of UC graduate professional students
1.3.5
Location of physicians, nurses, optometrists, dentists, veterinarians, and residents trained by UC
1.3.6
California resident retiree beneficiaries and faculty, academics, and staff employees
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HEALTH
1.4.1
University of California-affiliated clinical trials in California
1.4.2
Distribution of California zip codes served by UC Health
UC ALUMNI
1.5.1
UC alumni living in California
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Chapter 2:

Undergraduate Students | Admissions and Enrollment

APPLICANTS, ADMITS, AND ENROLLEES
2.1.1
Freshman applicants, admits, and enrollees
2.1.2
Transfer applicants, admits, and enrollees
2.1.3
New California resident transfer enrollment (Information Center dashboard)
2.1.4
Undergraduate headcount enrollment
2.1.5a
Undergraduate California resident FTE enrollment, progress toward Compact and 2030 goals
2.1.5b
Cumulative change in undergraduate California resident and nonresident FTE enrollment during the Compact
2.1.6
Transfers as a share of entering students, UC vs. selective public and private universities
DEMOGRAPHIC OUTCOMES
2.2.1
Entering students by first-generation status
2.2.2
Undergraduate freshman applicants, admits, and enrollees by self-reported parents’ income
2.2.3
Undergraduate transfer applicants, admits, and enrollees by self-reported parents’ income
PREPARATION OUTCOMES
2.3.1
A-G (college preparatory) courses and weighted, capped high school grade point average (HSGPA) of entering freshmen, as share of class (UC Information Center dashboard)
2.3.2
Pre-UC college grade point average (GPA) of entering transfer students, as share of class (Information Center dashboard)
GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS AND NONRESIDENTS
2.4.1
Residency of undergraduate students, UC vs. AAU public institutions
2.4.2
Percentage of undergraduate enrollees paying nonresident supplemental tuition by academic year
2.4.3
Percentage of new California resident freshman enrollees whose home is within a 50-mile radius of their campus
2.4.4
Percentage of new California resident transfer enrollees whose home is within a 50-mile radius of their campus
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Chapter 3:

Undergraduate Students | Affordability

COST OF ATTENDANCE
3.1.1
Net cost of attendance by family income and California residency (UC Information Center dashboard)
INCOME PROFILE
3.2.1
Undergraduate Pell Grant recipient enrollment and economic mobility (UC Information Center dashboard)
3.2.2
Undergraduate income distribution
COST OF ATTENDANCE AND STUDENT DEBT
3.3.1
Student loan debt of graduation seniors, inflation-adjusted (UC Information Center dashboard)
3.3.2
Undergraduate debt at graduation, UC and public comparison institutions
3.3.3
Percent of UC undergraduate alumni with manageable debt-to-earnings ratios (<10 percent) at two and five years after graduation, by major
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Chapter 4:

Undergraduate Students | Outcomes

FRESHMAN GRADUATION RATES AND RETENTION
4.1.1
Freshman four-year graduation rates by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.2
Freshman six-year graduation rates by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.3
Overall freshman graduation rates by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.4
Freshman average time to degree (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.5
Freshman three-year graduation rates (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.6
Freshman graduation rates, UC and comparison institutions
4.1.7
Freshman graduation rates by race/ethnicity, UC and AAU comparison institutions
4.1.8
Freshman graduation rates by high school GPA and student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.9
Freshman extended graduation rates, including those who graduated from a non-UC institution (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.1.10
First-year retention rates for UC freshmen and comparison institutions
4.1.11
First-year freshman retention rate by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
TRANSFER GRADUATION RATES AND RETENTION
4.2.1
Transfer two-year graduation rates by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.2.2
Transfer four-year graduation rates by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.2.3
Overall transfer two- and four-year graduation rates by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.2.4
Transfer average time to degree (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.2.5
Transfer four-year graduation rates by transfer GPA and student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.2.6
First-year retention rates for UC transfer students
4.2.7
First-year transfer retention rate by student group (UC Information Center dashboard)
UNDERGRADUATE OUTCOMES
4.3.1
Undergraduate degrees awarded by discipline, UC and comparison institutions
4.3.2
Inflation-adjusted two-year earnings by selected major and median earnings two to 15 years after graduation (UC Information Center dashboard)
4.3.3
Graduate and professional degree attainment among UC bachelor’s graduates (UC Information Center dashboard)
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Chapter 5:

Graduate Students

ALL GRADUATE STUDENT ENROLLMENT
5.1.1
Graduate enrollment share of total enrollment
5.1.2
All graduate enrollment over time by graduate program level
GRADUATE ACADEMIC ADMISSIONS
5.2.1
Graduate academic applications, admits, and new enrollees by degree program (UC Information Center dashboard)
5.2.2
Graduate academic applications, admits, and new enrollees by race/ethnicity (UC Information Center dashboard)
5.2.3
Graduate academic applications, admits, and new enrollees by discipline (UC Information Center dashboard)
GRADUATE ACADEMIC STUDENT ENROLLMENT
5.3.1
Share of all academic doctoral students from UC/CSU/HBCU/HSI/TCU and Growing Our Own goal (UC Information Center dashboard)
GRADUATE ACADEMIC STUDENT OUTCOMES
5.4.1
Graduate academic degrees awarded by discipline
5.4.2
Doctoral completion rates after ten years, by broad field and entry cohorts (UC Information Center dashboard)
5.4.3
Median time-to-doctorate, by race/ethnicity and discipline or gender and discipline (UC Information Center dashboard)
5.4.4
Academic doctoral students’ graduate debt at graduation, by discipline, domestic students (UC Information Center dashboard)
GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT
5.5.1
Graduate professional student enrollment by select professional degrees over time
GRADUATE PROFESSIONAL STUDENT OUTCOMES
5.6.1
Graduate professional degrees awarded by discipline
5.6.2
Graduate professional degree student debt at graduation, by discipline, domestic student (UC Information Center dashboard)
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Chapter 6:

Teaching and Learning

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT
6.1.1
Student satisfaction (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.1.2
Self-reported proficiency levels (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.1.3
Student engagement with research, internships, and service learning (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.1.4
Academic engagement (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.1.5
Students’ self-reported AI use (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.1.6
Share of undergraduates taking at least one course online
6.1.7
Summer enrollment as a percentage of prior year fall-winter-spring enrollment
GRADUATE STUDENT LEARNING
6.2.1
Graduate and professional student satisfaction (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.2.2
Graduate and professional student preparation by skillset (UC Information Center dashboard)
THE INSTRUCTIONAL WORKFORCE
6.3.1
General campus student-faculty ratio (UC Information Center dashboard)
6.3.2
Student credit hours, by instructional staff and class size
6.3.3
Student credit hours, by instructional staff and class type and class size
UC EXTENSION
6.4.1
UC Extension enrollment and certificates awarded
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Chapter 7:

Diversity

DIVERSITY OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
7.1.1
Student demographic profile (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.1.2
Additional student characteristics
7.1.3
Student and faculty diversity comparison
EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS
7.2.1
Undergraduate pipeline composition
7.2.2
Freshman opportunity gaps (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.2.3
Transfer opportunity gaps (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.2.4
Pathways to doctoral education: race/ethnicity
7.2.5
Pathways to doctoral education: gender
STUDENT EXPERIENCE AND BELONGING
7.3.1
Overall belonging (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.3.2
Belonging across undergraduate communities (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.3.3
Belonging across graduate student communities (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.3.4
Trends in undergraduate student climate (UC Information Center dashboard)
7.3.5
Trends in graduate student climate (UC Information Center dashboard)
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Chapter 8:

Faculty and Other Academic Employees

FACULTY AND STAFF RECOGNITION
8.1.1
Prizes, medals, and awards won by UC faculty and staff, with campus affiliation for Nobel Prizes
ACADEMIC WORKFORCE
8.2.1
Faculty FTE total by type (UC Information Center dashboard)
8.2.2
Non-faculty academic workforce FTE (UC Information Center dashboard)
8.2.3
Postdoctoral scholar headcount, by campus and discipline
ACADEMIC WORKFORCE DIVERSITY
8.3.1
Academic workforce race/ethnicity and gender by type (UC Information Center dashboard)
8.3.2
Percent of tenure and tenure-track faculty who are women and/or African American or Hispanic/Latino(a), UC and comparison institutions
ACADEMIC HIRING AND RETENTION
8.4.1
UC ladder-rank faculty headcount, excluding recall faculty, Universitywide (UC Information Center dashboard)
8.4.2
New hires and separations of ladder-rank and equivalent faculty, Universitywide (UC Information Center dashboard)
8.4.3
Faculty separation reasons
8.4.4
Ladder-rank faculty salaries as a percentage of market
8.4.5
UC pathways to professoriate
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Chapter 9:

Research

RESEARCH EXPENDITURES
9.1.1
Total research expenditures by fund source, Universitywide (UC Information Center dashboard)
9.1.2
Total research expenditures by discipline, Universitywide (UC Information Center dashboard)
9.1.3
Total research expenditures by cost type, Universitywide (UC Information Center dashboard)
9.1.4
Share of national research, US four-year universities (UC Information Center dashboard)
RESEARCH EMPLOYEES
9.2.1
UC researcher California locations
9.2.2
Average direct research expenditures per tenured/tenure-track faculty, UC and AAU comparisons (UC Information Center dashboard)
9.2.3
Average direct research expenditures per tenured/tenure-track faculty, top 35 institutions (UC Information Center dashboard)
OFF-CAMPUS RESEARCH
9.3.1
UC Nature use data (UC Information Center dashboard)
9.3.2
UC Nature locations and campus affiliation
RESEARCH IMPACT
9.4.1
eScholarship downloads and deposits of UC scholarly materials, Universitywide
9.4.2
Licenses, research/invention disclosures, and patent protection (UC Information Center dashboard)
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Chapter 10:

University of California Health

HEALTH CENTERS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
10.1.1
Academic health centers and health professional schools
10.1.2
University of California-affiliated clinical trials (UC Information Center dashboard)
PATIENT CARE
10.2.1
Inpatient days by patient type
10.2.2
Sources of reimbursements for care delivered by payor type
10.2.3
Patient complexity (Case Mix Index), patient days, outpatient visits, and hospital admissions
HEALTH PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS AND STUDENT DEBT
10.3.1
Health professional students by discipline
10.3.2
Average total charges for health professional degree students
10.3.3
Health professional degree student debt at graduation (UC Information Center dashboard)
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Chapter 11:

Public Service

UC AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
11.1.1
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources program locations
11.1.2
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources: 4-H Youth Development program sites
11.1.3
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources public volunteer total headcount
11.1.4
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources-organized educational total activities: meetings, train-the-trainer, workshops, field days, and courses
11.1.5
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources total science-to-policy activities
EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
11.2.1
Graduate, Undergraduate and Equity Affairs programs: Student Academic Preparation and Educational Partnerships (SAPEP) (UC Information Center dashboard)
11.2.2
Graduate, Undergraduate and Equity Affairs programs: K-12 outreach programs (UC Information Center dashboard)
11.2.3
Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) program participation
PUBLIC SERVICE IMPACTS
11.3.1
UC in California: Impact beyond campus borders, Community-based program site locations
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Chapter 12:

Staff

STAFF WORKFORCE
12.1.1
Staff Full-time Equivalent (FTE) (UC Information Center dashboard)
12.1.2
Racial/ethnic diversity of staff (UC Information Center dashboard)
12.1.3
Gender diversity of staff (UC Information Center dashboard)
12.1.4
Student-staff ratio (UC Information Center dashboard)
12.1.5
Staff-faculty ratio (UC Information Center dashboard)
STAFF COMPENSATION
12.2.1
Increases in funding for staff salaries compared to market
12.2.2
Annual base salary rates for UC chancellors and comp-8 counterparts
STAFF SEPARATIONS
12.3.1
Fiscal year separation rate for career staff (UC Information Center dashboard)
12.3.2
Separation reasons for career staff (UC Information Center dashboard)
12.3.3
Fiscal year hires of career staff by personnel program (UC Information Center dashboard)
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Chapter 13:

Institutional Performance

FINANCES
13.1.1
Revenues by source (UC Information Center dashboard)
13.1.2
Current giving by purpose
13.1.3
Expenditures by function and class (UC Information Center dashboard)
13.1.4
Per-student average expenditures for education
CAPITAL PROJECTS
13.2.1
Sources of capital project funding by year of approval
13.2.2
Sources of capital project spending detail
13.2.3
Types of capital projects, based on budgets approved by year
13.2.4
Assignable square footage (ASF)
SUSTAINABILITY
13.3.1
Greenhouse gas emissions compared to climate goals
13.3.2
Energy costs savings and energy use intensity
13.3.3
LEED® certifications
COMMUNITY SAFETY
13.4.1
Number and circumstances of UCPD stops by month (UC Information Center dashboard)
13.4.2
Number of UCPD use of force incidents by month (UC Information Center dashboard)
13.4.3
Number of UCPD calls for service by call category (UC Information Center dashboard)
13.4.4
Number of UCPD criminal activity reports/offenses by month (UC Information Center dashboard)
13.4.5
Number of UCPD civilian complaints by month (UC Information Center dashboard)
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