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<p>Actually, only about one third of adults over 25 in the US have completed a bachelor’s degree at any college.</p>
<p>In terms of prestigious colleges, here is California’s public undergraduate enrollment:</p>
<p>UC: 179,581
- Berkeley: 25,540
- UCLA: 26,162</p>
<p>CSU: 348,205
- Cal Poly SLO: 17,332</p>
<p>So out of 527,786 undergraduates at California four year public universities, only 51,702, or 9.8%, are in those with national recognition. Adding regionally recognized Cal Poly SLO brings it up to 13.1% (yes, one can quibble about UCSD, UCSB, and a few others, but that won’t bring up the percentage that much).</p>
<p>Now, there are also private schools like Stanford and USC which are high prestige schools, but there are also a lot of low prestige private schools like Phoenix and DeVry.</p>
<p>But the elephant in California post-secondary education is the community college system, with about 2,900,000 students.</p>