Graduation-- 5 years?!

beyphy
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 03:17:54 +0000

It’s totally not uncommon to graduate within four years. In fact, I know several a few people that did so in less than four years. You need to be on top of your classes and requirements though.

There’s some odd discrepancy between four years and 12 quarters. The latter’s graduation rate is significantly higher than the former. For example, UCLA’s four-year graduation rate may have been 69%, but it’s 12 quarter graduation rate was 81%

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/uc-student-graduation-rates-hit-246210

Even more noteworthy, it’s 13 quarter graduation rate was 89%. I have a few friends who stayed a bit longer at UCLA (extra quarter or extra year.) All did so by choice. All of them had enough units to graduate but wanted to stay longer for a variety of reasons (e.g. taking more classes, doing study abroad, etc.)