July 2017

Higher Education

Enrollment by Higher Education Segment

Resident Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Students

   2015-16
Actual		 2016-17
Revised		 2017-18
Enacted		 Change from 2016-17
Amount Percent
California Community Colleges 1,137,619  1,152,708  1,154,917 2,209 0.2%
California State University          
Undergraduate 335,218     339,232     341,480 2,248 0.7%
Graduate/other postbaccalaureate 28,713 28,984 29,176 192 0.7
Teacher credential        7,028        7,148        7,195            47 0.7
Subtotals (370,959) (375,364) (377,851) (2,487) (0.7%)
University of California          
Undergraduate     174,111     181,154     183,654 2,500 1.4%
Graduate       36,225       37,236       37,736       500 1.3
Subtotals (210,336) (218,390) (221,390) (3,000) (1.4%)
Hastings College of the Law           785           815           799         -16 -2.0%
Total  1,719,698  1,747,277  1,754,957       7,680 0.4%

Notes: At CCC, 1 FTE student represents 525 contact hours per year, which on average generates about 24 credit units. For undergraduate education at CSU and UC, 1 FTE student represents 30 credit units. For graduate education at CSU, UC, and Hastings, 1 FTE student represents 24 credit units.

For CCC, reflects funded enrollment levels each year. For 2017-18, reflects 1 percent systemwide growth plus 1.3 percent enrollment restoration (certain districts earning back slots they had lost within the last three years), offset by a 2.1 percent reduction due to districts with declining enrollment.

For CSU and UC, reflects actual enrollment in 2015-16 and estimated enrollment in 2016-17. For 2017-18, assumes CSU campuses spread enrollment growth proportionally among its three educational levels, and, for UC, assumes all additional graduate students are residents.

For Hastings, reflects enrollment in its juris doctor program, which accounts for more than 95 percent of its total enrollment. Hastings also offers a couple of small, self-supporting master’s degree programs, for which it does not use residency classifications.