
BLACKSBURG, VA - MAY 11: A Virginia Tech graduate student displays a memorial ribbon on the top of her mortarboard cap during commencement exercises for graduate students at Cassell Coliseum on the Virginia Tech campus May 11, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Less than a month after gunman Seung-Hui Cho went on his murderous rampage, killing 32 students and faculty, about 5,000 students will be honored during commencement at the school's football stadium this evening. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
SACRAMENTO (KCBS) – Graduation rates throughout the University of California system have risen significantly over the past 20 years despite cuts in state funding, a university official said Wednesday.
Sixty percent of the freshman who enrolled in 2007 graduated within four years, compared to a 37 percent four-year graduation rate for the cohort that started in 1992, said UC Provost Aimee Dorr.
“All of the campuses have room to make some improvement towards more four-year graduation rates and fewer five and six-year graduation rates,” Dorr said, noting that some campuses had higher graduation rates than others.

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