UCUES

How do I propose items or topics for inclusion on an upcoming administration?

From time to time new survey topics of interest are included in UCUES as part of the special topics, Wild Card, module. UC Berkeley affiliates may contact Sereeta Alexander(link is external) at the Office of Planning and Analysis at Berkeley to propose additional items or topics for inclusion. Affiliates of other UC campuses may contact their respective campus representatives.

Can items from one module be correlated with items from a different module?

No, not directly, since a completely different and non-overlapping subset of students is assigned to each module. Items from modules can only be directly correlated with the items from the core.

What is the response rate? How is it calculated? Is it "good?"

The precise figure varies from year to year and by campus, but at Berkeley it has been:

2011: 30% (6,982 out of 23,656) 2010: 45% (11,203 out of 24,967) 2009: 37% (9,016 out of 24,379) 2008: 50% (11,833 out of 23,904) 2007: 51% (11,957 out of 23,278) 2006: 48% (10,717 out of 22,430) 2005: 52% (11,673 out of 22,450) 2006: 48% (10,717 out of 22,430) 2007: 51% (11,957 out of 23,278) 2008: 50% (11,833 out of 23,904) 2009: 37% (9,016 out of 24,379) 2010: 45% (11,203 out of...

Who is eligible to participate?

All regularly enrolled undergraduate students eighteen years or older on April 1 of the year of the survey are invited to participate. A very small number of limited enrollment/2nd degree students and minors are excluded from the eligible population. (The excluded group constitutes less than one percent of the total undergraduate population.)

What is UCUES?

UCUES, the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, is an omnibus survey of the experience of undergraduate students enrolled at the nine University of California undergraduate campuses.

Survey results are matched with institutional data from campus records to provide a...

Why doesn't the questionnaire ask about demographic information such as ethnicity? What other data are available as part of the UCUES dataset?

Institutional data, the administrative and transactional data collected by the university, are already collected and maintained at the individual level in application, registration, and degree databases and matched to the survey results.

Among the most important institutional variables are:

ethnicity age admission status (transfer admit or new-from-high school freshman admit) term and year of admission (used to calculate year in school or unofficial class level) units earned (used to calculate official class level) date and title of degrees earned (for students who have...

How often is UCUES administered?

Since 2004, UCUES has been administered annually at Berkeley and every other year (even numbered years) at the other UC undergraduate campuses. Earlier versions of UCUES date back to 1996.