AAU — Association of American Universities. The AAU is a highly selective membership organization of preeminent public and private research universities. AAU currently has 60 American and two Canadian member institutions. In this report, the Canadian institutions are excluded from calculations. Of the ten UC campuses, six are AAU members: Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara.
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.
ARRA — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, passed by Congress in 2009, was an economic stimulus package intended to ameliorate the effects of the 2007–09 recession.
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. Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego have schools of medicine and other health sciences such as pharmacy, nursing and dentistry; Riverside has a school of medicine; Berkeley offers health sciences instruction in optometry and public health.
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.
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an association of 62 leading public and private research universities in the United States and Canada. A list of the institutions can be found in Table 6 of this glossary. 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 www.aau.edu.
The American Association of University Professors is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States. It conducts an annual survey of faculty compensation, used in this report to compare UC’s faculty salaries. More information on the AAUP data set can be found at www.aaup.org/our-work/research/annual-report-economic-status-profession.
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 http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Economics/Indicators/Inflation/
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 http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study is the most comprehensive, nationally representative survey of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. Since 1987, NPSAS has been conducted every three to four years by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at all types of postsecondary institutions are represented. For more information, visit http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/npsas.
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 http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/.
| 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 |
| Discipline Grouping - Accountability | UAS Discipline |
| Arts & Humanities | Fine & Applied Arts |
| Arts & Humanities | Foreign Languages |
| Arts & Humanities | Letters |
| Arts & Humanities | Theology |
| Business/Management | Business & Management |
| Education | Education |
| Engineering & Computer Science | Computer & Information Sciences |
| Engineering & Computer Science | Engineering |
| Interdisciplinary/Other | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Interdisciplinary/Other | Physical Education |
| Interdisciplinary/Other | Military Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary/Other | Home Economics |
| Law | Law |
| Life Sciences | Biological Sciences |
| Life Sciences | Agriculture & Natural Resources |
| Math | Mathematics |
| Medicine | Medicine |
| Other General Campus Professional | Architecture & Environmental Design |
| Other General Campus Professional | Criminology |
| Other General Campus Professional | Social Welfare |
| Other General Campus Professional | Communications |
| Other General Campus Professional | Library Science |
| Other Health Science | Veterinary Medicine |
| Other Health Science | Dentistry |
| Other Health Science | Nursing |
| Other Health Science | Pharmacy |
| Other Health Science | Public Health |
| Other Health Science | Optometry |
| Other Health Science | Other Health Professions |
| Physical Science | Physical Sciences |
| Social Science & Psychology | Psychology |
| Social Science & Psychology | Social Sciences |
| Social Science & Psychology | Area Studies |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Faculty – Lecturers |
Lecturer: 225 Instructional Assistant (non-student): 357 |
|
Postdoctoral Scholars |
575, 577 |
|
Medical Interns/Residents |
446 |
|
Student Teaching/Research Assistants |
426, 436, 456, 467 |
|
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 |
| UC | Non-UC Public | Private |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | Georgia Institute of Technology — Main Campus | Boston University |
| Davis | Indiana University — Bloomington | Brandeis University |
| Irvine | Iowa State University | Brown University |
| Los Angeles | Michigan State University | California Institute of Technology |
| San Diego | Ohio State University — Main Campus | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Santa Barbara | Pennsylvania State University — Main Campus | Case Western Reserve University |
| Santa Cruz* | Purdue University — Main Campus | Columbia University in the City of New York |
| Rutgers University — New Brunswick | Cornell University | |
| Stony Brook University | Dartmouth University* | |
| Texas A & M University | Duke University | |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Emory University | |
| University at Buffalo | Harvard University | |
| University of Arizona | Johns Hopkins University | |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| University of Florida | New York University | |
| University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign | Northwestern University | |
| University of Iowa | Princeton University | |
| University of Kansas | Rice University | |
| University of Maryland — College Park | Stanford University | |
| University of Michigan — Ann Arbor | Tulane University of Louisiana | |
| University of Minnesota — Twin Cities | University of Chicago | |
| University of Missouri — Columbia | University of Pennsylvania | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | University of Rochester | |
| University of Oregon | University of Southern California | |
| University of Pittsburgh — Pittsburgh Campus | Vanderbilt University | |
| University of Virginia — Main Campus | Washinton University in St. Louis | |
| University of Washington — Seattle Campus | Yale University | |
| University of Wisconsin — Madison | ||
| University of Utah* |
*Joined in 2019.
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 |
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.