AB 540 — AB 540 is an Assembly bill passed in 2001. It allows undocumented high school students who meet certain requirements to pay in-state, instead of nonresident, tuition at California’s public higher education institutions.
Academic Senate — The Academic Senate represents the faculty in the shared governance of the University of California.
Auxiliary enterprises — Auxiliary enterprises are campus services that charge fees for goods and services and therefore are self-supporting. Examples include student housing, dining facilities and bookstores.
Clinical faculty — Clinical faculty are instructors in medical and health sciences fields. They include professors in residence, professors of clinical __ (__ being the name of the discipline or specialty), and health science clinical professors. Clinical faculty are not members of the Academic Senate.
Comparison institutions; comparators — UC historically has used eight universities against which to benchmark faculty salaries. The comparison institutions — four public and four private — are: University of Illinois, University of Michigan, University at Buffalo and University of Virginia (all public); and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and Yale (all private).
FTE — Full time equivalent – a unit of measurement of employee or student workload or attendance. Two individuals each engaged in half-time employment constitute a single FTE. In this report, FTE counts are represented with a single decimal to differentiate them from headcounts. (See headcount.)
General campus — Used to distinguish the non-health science areas of a campus from the health science areas. Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Riverside and San Diego include both general campus and health science areas. Merced, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz are general campus only, and San Francisco is an exclusively health science campus.
General funds — General funds include State general funds, which are funds from the State of California, and UC general funds, which are primarily indirect cost recovery and nonresident tuition.
Graduation rate — The proportion of students in a cohort who finish their degrees within a specified period. Undergraduate graduation rates are generally measured in four-, five- and six-year increments for entering freshmen, and two-, three- and four-year increments for transfer students.
Headcount — Headcount is the actual number of individuals without accounting for full- or part-time status. Two students each attending school half-time constitute a headcount of two. (See FTE.)
Health sciences instruction — Seven UC campuses offer health sciences instruction.
Berkeley provides optometry & vision science and public health instruction.
Davis has schools of medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine.
Irvine has schools of medicine, nursing, pharmaceutical sciences, and public health.
Los Angeles has schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and public health.
Riverside has a school of medicine.
San Francisco has schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy.
San Diego has schools of medicine, pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences, and public health & human longevity science.
K-12 — Kindergarten through 12th-grade instruction.
Ladder-rank — Ladder-rank faculty are faculty who are tenured or have potential to receive tenure, and generally are members of the Academic Senate.
Master Plan — The Master Plan for Higher Education establishes a system of public higher education in California that defines the roles of public institutions with the goal of making higher education available to all Californians. The Master Plan was originally drafted in 1960 and has been updated several times to accommodate changing circumstances.
Non-ladder-rank faculty — Non-ladder rank faculty are faculty who are neither tenured nor on track to receive tenure, and generally are not members of the Academic Senate. Non-ladder rank faculty includes lecturers, visitors, adjuncts, instructional assistants and clinical faculty.
Nonresident — Nonresident students come from outside California to attend a UC campus. They must pay the full cost of attendance.
Pell Grant — The Pell Grant is a federal program that provides need-based grants to low-income individuals for the purposes of obtaining a college degree. A Pell Grant recipient is defined as a student who received a Pell Grant at any point while attending an institution.
Postbaccalaureate teaching credential — The postbaccalaureate teaching credential trains individuals to meet state standards for teacher certification.
Postdoctoral scholar — Postdoctoral scholars are engaged in further research or training in the fields in which they obtained their doctoral degrees for the purpose of gaining additional expertise and skills. Postdoctoral scholars may hold concurrent titles in other academic or staff categories.
SCH, student credit hours – Student credit hours are a measure of faculty teaching workload. SCH is defined as the number of student enrollments in a course multiplied by the number of credits available from that course. For example, a 4-credit course with 50 students generates 200 SCH; a 2-credit course of 15 students generates 30 SCH.
STEM — Science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In this report, includes physical sciences and mathematics, life sciences, engineering, computer science and health sciences.
TICAS — The Institute for College Access and Success. TICAS is an independent, nonprofit organization that conducts and supports nonpartisan research, analysis and advocacy with regard to access and affordability of higher education.
Transfer students — Transfer students enter UC after completing their freshman- and sophomore-level studies at a California Community College. The Master Plan calls for UC to admit as juniors all qualified California Community College students and specifies that the University maintain a 60:40 ratio of upper-division (junior- and senior-level) to lower-division (freshman- and sophomore-level).
UCUES — University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey. UCUES is a biennial survey that solicits undergraduate opinions on all aspects of the UC experience. See Data Glossary entry below for more information.
UCGSES — University of California Graduate Student Experience Survey. UCGSES is a biennial survey that solicits graduate opinions on all aspects of the UC experience.
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an association of 69 leading public and private research universities in the United States and Canada. Membership in AAU is by invitation and is based on the high quality of programs of academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate and professional education in a number of fields. Throughout this report, the two AAU institutions in Canada are excluded from the “Non-UC AAU Public” group because they do not submit data to the U.S. Department of Education, the source of the AAU data used here. For more information, visit the Association of American Universities website.
The CPI is a measure of inflation experienced by consumers, and an important indicator of the condition of the economy. It can be used to adjust other economic data for changes in price level and to convert them into inflation-free dollars. For example, retail sales and income data are "deflated" to assess their "real" movements over time. This report uses the calendar year average of the CPI-W (CA), which is the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. For more information on the CPI-W (CA), visit the State of California Department of Finance webpage.
IPEDS is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. IPEDS gathers information from every college, university, and technical and vocational institution that participates in federal student financial aid programs. IPEDS provides basic data needed to describe — and analyze trends in — postsecondary education in the United States, in terms of the numbers of students enrolled, staff employed, dollars expended and degrees earned. For more information, visit the National Center for Education Statistics IPEDS webpage.
The National Student Clearinghouse reports on all institutions that a student has attended or received a degree/credential at. Estimates are conservative due to imperfect matching of students. For more information, visit the National Student Clearinghouse website.
The Data Warehouse is a set of databases and processes that provides information to meet the management, analytical and operational needs of the UC Office of the President. The databases are created and/or updated with data received from the campuses and other sources. More information about the data warehouse subject areas can be found at the UC data operations hub Subject areas webpage.
The University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) biennially solicits student opinions on all aspects of the UC experience. UCUES content is broad and covers most aspects of students' academic and co-curricular experiences. Students evaluate such things as instruction, advising and student services. More information can be found at IRAP's UC Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES) webpage.
| Broad Discipline | CIP Categories Included | |
| When Using UC Corporate Data | When Using IPEDS Degree Data | |
| Arts & Humanities | Visual/Performing Arts English Literature Foreign Languages Philosophy History Liberal Arts |
Visual/Performing Arts English Literature Foreign Languages Philosophy History Liberal Arts |
| Life Sciences | Bio/Life Sciences Conservation Science Agricultural Science (select 01 CIPs) |
Bio/Life Sciences Conservation Science Agricultural Science (select 01 CIPs) |
| Physical Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (PSTEM) | Math Physical Science Engineering Computer Science |
Math Physical Science Engineering Computer Science |
| Social Sciences | Area Studies Psychology Social Sciences (except UCSD Pacific Affairs, UCI Criminology) Agricultural Business/Production (select 01 CIPs) |
Area Studies Psychology Social Sciences Agricultural Business/Production (select 01 CIPs) |
| Other Disciplines | Interdisciplinary Other/Unknown Business Architecture Education Public Admin. Law (non-J.D.) Communications Criminology Health Sciences Library Science Social Sciences (UCSD Pacific Affairs and UCI Criminology) |
Interdisciplinary Other/Unknown Business Architecture Education Public Admin. Law (non-J.D.) Communications Criminology Health Sciences Library Science Theology Parks & Recreation Military Science Homeland Security |
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Category |
Series Included and Class Title Outline code |
|
Faculty – Ladder-rank and Equivalent (LRE) |
Professorial – Tenure, Non-Tenure and Recall: 010, 011, 012 Acting Professor – Senate and Non-Senate: 114, 124 Lecturer with Security of Employment or Potential Security of Employment, including Acting: 210, 211, 214, 224 Astronomers and Agronomists: 520, 530, 531 |
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Faculty – Clinical/In-Residence/Adjunct |
Professor in Residence: 311 Professor of Clinical ___ (e.g., Medicine): 317 Visiting Professor: 323 Adjunct Professor: 335 Health Sciences Clinical Professor: 341 |
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Faculty – Lecturers |
Lecturer: 225 Instructional Assistant (non-student): 357 |
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Postdoctoral Scholars |
575, 577 |
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Medical Interns/Residents |
446 |
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Student Teaching/Research Assistants |
426, 436, 456, 467 |
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Other academic employees |
All other academic titles not listed above, including but not limited to Emeritus, Clinical Professor-Volunteer, Professional Research, Specialist, Project Series, Librarian series, Cooperative Extension series, Continuing Educator, University Extension, Academic Administrators (CTO S__), and miscellaneous titles |
Unless otherwise noted, all inflation adjustments are to calendar year dollars using the consumer price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, California (CPI-W) published by the California Department of Finance.
| Calendar Year | Fiscal/ Academic Year | CCPI-W, CA (1982–84=100) |
| 1993 | 1993–94 | 144.7 |
| 1994 | 1994–95 | 146.6 |
| 1995 | 1995–96 | 149.1 |
| 1996 | 1996–97 | 152.0 |
| 1997 | 1997–98 | 155.0 |
| 1998 | 1998–99 | 157.6 |
| 1999 | 1999–00 | 162.2 |
| 2000 | 2000–01 | 168.1 |
| 2001 | 2001–02 | 174.7 |
| 2002 | 2002–03 | 179.0 |
| 2003 | 2003–04 | 183.8 |
| 2004 | 2004–05 | 188.9 |
| 2005 | 2005–06 | 195.9 |
| 2006 | 2006–07 | 203.3 |
| 2007 | 2007–08 | 209.9 |
| 2008 | 2008–09 | 217.6 |
| 2009 | 2009–10 | 216.3 |
| 2010 | 2010–11 | 219.7 |
| 2011 | 2011–12 | 226.4 |
| 2012 | 2012–13 | 231.6 |
| 2013 | 2013–14 | 234.9 |
| 2014 | 2014–15 | 239.0 |
| 2015 | 2015–16 | 241.6 |
| 2016 | 2016-17 | 246.2 |
| 2017 | 2017-18 | 253.2 |
| 2018 | 2018-19 | 263.0 |
| 2019 | 2019-20 | 270.8 |
| 2020 | 2020-21 | 275.6 |
| 2021 | 2021-22 | 288.6 |
| 2022 | 2022-23 | 310.4 |
| 2023 | 2023-24 | 321.2 |
| 2024 | 2024-25 | 330.7 |
| 2025 | 2025-26 | 341.0 |
UCOP classifies graduate students into five enrollment levels that rely on campus provided information on program type and student enrollment level. Within UCOP’s central student data system campuses indicate whether each of their programs of study is academic or professional at the master’s and doctoral levels. These indications, combined with the actual enrollment level (masters or doctoral) of the student, serve as the determination of whether a student is enrolled in an academic doctoral, professional doctoral, academic master’s, or professional master’s program. Two exceptions to this rule include (1) all self-supporting students are treated as professional (master’s or doctoral based on level) regardless of how the campus may have classified the program, and (2) all students enrolled in programs associated with professional licensure (law, medicine, and other health professions) are treated as professional practice.