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California: Colleges & the Job Outlook for Graduates

There are a total of 280 public and private colleges and universities in the state of California. These institutions enroll over 1.35 million students, in private, public, and in the community college sector.

The Stats: Degrees and Student Body Ratio

In 2016, a total of 594,854 total degrees were distributed to graduates in the state of California. There’s a larger contingency of female students in the state with

• 1,512,800 female students
• 1,241,640 male students throughout the state.