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San Joaquin County lags behind California and the rest of the United States in both high school graduation rates and college degree attainment. In fact, San Joaquin ranks 46th out of 58 California counties with its 78% high school graduation rate. Nevertheless, more than half (51.1%) of San Joaquin residents 25 and over attended at least some college. Read the latest Regional Analyst on this issue.
Educational Attainment
Major | Graduates |
---|---|
Business | 16,054 |
Education | 8,921 |
Social Science | 7,134 |
Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences | 6,468 |
Liberal Arts and History | 5,790 |
Engineering | 5,523 |
Psychology | 4,082 |
Literature and Language | 2,998 |
Computers, Mathematics, and Statistics | 2,875 |
Visual and Performing Arts | 2,841 |
Both University of the Pacific (4,532 full-time equivalent students in 2017) and San Joaquin Delta College (14,705 FTES) have experienced minor enrollment declines in recent years. For UOP, this has been offset by increases in enrollment in its Sacramento and San Francisco campuses. At SJDC, the most popular program is general mathematics, with 1,864 students enrolled in 2017.