National Center for Education Statistics. Fall Enrollment - Postsecondary Education: Full-Time Degree Seeking Undergaduate | State: California | Gender: All Gender | Race: All Races/Ethnicities, 2013. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 017-005-006
Dataset: Presents a count of full-time degree-seeking undergraduate students enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the United States and Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Included in this count are full-time students enrolled in courses for credit who are recognized by the institution as seeking a degree or other formal award. At the undergraduate level, this is intended to include students enrolled in vocational or occupational programs. Undergraduates are considered full-time if enrolled for 12 or more semester credits, or 12 or more quarter credits, or 24 or more contact hours a week each term.
Data are from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), a web-based data collection system, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. All postsecondary institutions that participate in or are applicants for participation in any federal programs providing financial assistance to students are required to report data using the IPEDS. More than 7,500 institutions complete IPEDS surveys each year. These include research universities, state colleges and universities, private religious and liberal arts colleges, for-profit institutions, community and technical colleges, non-degree-granting institutions (eg, beauty colleges), and others. IPEDS collects data on postsecondary education in the United States in seven areas: institutional characteristics, institutional prices, enrollment, student financial aid, degrees and certificates conferred, student persistence and success, and institutional human and fiscal resources.
The total enrollment data presented here are based on fall enrollment, an annual component of IPEDS that collects data on the number of students enrolled in the fall at postsecondary institutions. Data are reported by race/ethnicity; gender; enrollment status (part-time or full-time); and or level of study (undergraduate or graduate); also included are counts of nonresident aliens (ie, a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely) enrolled in postsecondary institutions. Students report...