To meet the workforce demands of California’s economy, the CSU 2025 Initiative aims to graduate an additional 100,000 baccalaureate students, a total of more than one million, over the next ten years. SF State will contribute to this goal by increasing transfer and freshman graduation rates by an average of 11.25% and eliminating the opportunity gap.
Toward these ends, our campus plan is structured around six strategies:
- improved course availability and curriculum;
- coordinated, intrusive, and strategic advising;
- broad accessibility and visibility of student success data;
- high-quality student experience in the first year of college for incoming freshmen;
- effective, targeted support services to achieve educational equity (directed specifically at our first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students, with special attention to men of color); and
- faculty hiring and development
Graduation Initiative 2025 Goals for SF State
| Metric | 2025 Goal | 2022 Rate | 2021 Rate | 2020 Rate | 2019 Rate | 2018 Rate | 2017 Rate | 2016 Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freshman Four-Year Graduation | 33% | 28.4% | 26.5% | 27.2% | 24.1% | 24.9% | 22.2% | 21.6% |
| Freshman Six-Year Graduation | 69% | 54.7% | 53.7% | 55.2% | 56.5% | 54.9% | 53.6% | 53.2% |
| Transfer Two-Year Graduation | 49% | 44.8% | 45.5% | 47.7% | 46.0% | 44.7% | 41.1% | 37.2% |
| Transfer Four-Year Graduation | 86% | 76.7% | 77.5% | 75.5% | 74.2% | 72.8% | 72.7% | 72.6% |
| Gap – Underrepresented Minority | 0 | 10.7% | 9.7% | 9.8% | 0.8% | 7.9% | 9.8% | 8.5% |
| Gap – Pell | 0 | 7.4% | 3.8% | 1.3% | 0.8% | 3.8% | 1.2% | 0.6% |