Institutional Research and Academic Planning
IRAP supports the educational mission of the University by engaging UC graduate student analysts on special projects. The work of these scholars can be found below.
Undergraduate voter participation and campus political climate at the University of California
May 2020A topic brief exploring undergraduate voter registration and participation and their connection to the undergraduate experience on UC campuses.
Major restrictions, socioeconomic stratification, and student success
October 2022This report analyzes the equity implications of GPA-based major restrictions, which are commonly used to limit access to impacted majors.
The impact of Proposition 209 and access-oriented UC admissions policies on underrepresented UC applications, enrollment, and long-run student outcomes
January 2023This brief estimates the costs of Proposition 209 for Underrepresented Group (URG) applicants to the University of California and measures the impact of two subsequent major UC admissions policies on URG enrollment.
What is the value of a UC degree for on-the-fence students? An evaluation of the 2001-2011 UC eligibility in the local context program
January 2023This brief evaluates the University of California's 2001-2011 Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) program, which provided UC admissions advantages to California high school students in the top four percent of their class by GPA.
What's it worth?
April 2017A multi-faceted approach to measuring the value of undergraduate humanities degrees at the University of California
Bridging the gap: Increasing retention rates for female engineers in the UC system
March 2017An analysis of the systemwide performance in engineering retention at the undergraduate level by gender, identifying programs and policies that have shown to increase the rate of retention for female students.
UC undergraduate college completion: using unit-taking strategies to improve graduation rates
April 2015This project addresses the association between the number of units an undergraduate takes and their time to graduation.