Fall 2006
Three-year Retention Rate of Doctoral Students from the Fall 2003 Cohort

  Fall 2003 Retained Retained Graduated Retained Retention
Program Name Cohort Fall 2004 Fall 2005 2002-05 Fall 2006 Rate
Agricultural & Resource Economics 16 14 11 0 9 56%
Agricultural & Environmental Chemistry 10 8 7 0 7 70%
Animal Behavior 4 4 3 0 2 50%
Anthropology 4 4 3 0 3 75%
Applied Mathematics 5 5 4 0 4 80%
Applied Science Engineering 17 13 9 0 8 47%
Atmospheric Science 3 2 3 0 1 33%
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 27 25 24 0 22 81%
Biological Systems Engineering 8 6 5 0 1 13%
Biomedical Engineering 13 10 9 0 8 62%
Biophysics 4 3 3 0 3 75%
Biostatistics 3 2 3 0 2 67%
Cell & Developmental Biology 8 8 8 0 8 100%
Chemical Engineering 15 12 12 0 11 73%
Chemistry 36 33 30 0 28 78%
Civil & Environmental Engineering 15 13 11 1 8 57%
Community Development 1 1 1 0 1 100%
Comparative Literature 3 3 3 0 3 100%
Comparative Pathology 12 12 9 2 6 60%
Computer Science 26 26 20 0 20 77%
Cultural Studies 11 8 7 0 7 64%
Dramatic Art 3 3 3 0 3 100%
Ecology 30 30 28 0 24 80%
Ecology Joint Program with SDSU 2 0 0 0 0 0%
Economics 25 15 14 0 10 40%
Education (PhD/MA) 13 12 11 0 9 69%
Electrical & Computer Engineering 30 25 18 1 14 48%
English 18 16 12 0 13 72%
Entomology 6 6 5 0 4 67%
Epidemiology 5 4 4 1 2 50%
Food Science 10 10 10 1 8 89%
French 5 5 3 0 3 60%
Genetics 12 12 11 0 10 83%
Geography 6 4 4 0 4 67%
Geology 4 2 3 0 2 50%
German 1 1 1 0 0 0%
History 19 17 15 0 11 58%
Human Development 5 5 5 0 4 80%
Hydrologic Sciences 3 2 2 0 1 33%
Immunology 4 3 3 0 2 50%
Jt. Prog. Ed. Leadership CSUF 13 0 0 7 0 0%
Materials Science and Engineering 10 9 9 0 8 80%
Mathematics 17 16 15 1 8 50%
Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering 16 11 8 0 6 38%
Microbiology 7 6 6 0 4 57%
Molecular, Cellular & Integrative Physiology 13 11 9 0 8 62%
Music 5 4 4 0 1 20%
Native American Studies 2 2 2 0 2 100%
Neuroscience 9 8 8 1 6 75%
Nutrition 20 20 17 0 13 65%
Pharm & Tox 9 9 9 0 7 78%
Philosophy 7 5 4 0 2 29%
Physics 26 24 23 0 16 62%
Plant Biology 10 10 10 0 9 90%
Plant Pathology 6 6 4 0 4 67%
Political Science 14 13 11 0 8 57%
Population Biology 8 8 7 0 7 88%
Psychology 15 14 12 0 12 80%
Sociology 8 6 5 0 4 50%
Soil Science 4 2 2 0 2 50%
Spanish 8 8 7 0 5 63%
Statistics 7 7 6 0 6 86%
Transportation Technology & Policy 4 4 4 0 4 100%