Students with Dependents Population Data

Students with Dependents include pregnant, parenting and caregiving undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate level students enrolled at California Polytechnic State University. 

The collection of this data is a result of funding from the Urban Institute's Data-to-Action Grant along with collaborative efforts with Institutional Research. We also received support from Strategic Enrollment Manangement and Office of the President, for which our efforts would not have existed without their insight and guidance.  

Definitions & language clarification: 

• Transfer Students are those who have taken any college-level classes since the summer beyond your high school graduation, you are considered a transfer student. Applicants applying as a transfer student should be a college junior with 60 or more transferable semester units or 90 quarter units by the time of transfer.
• Pell Eligible students are undergraduate students who display exceptional financial need and have not earned a bachelor's, graduate, or professional degree.
• First Generation students are those whom one or both parents either never attended or did not complete college. 
• Post-baccalaureate students are those enrolled in a credential program or a certificate program. 
• Full-time students are those taking 12 or more units (undergraduate and post-bacc) or 9 or more units (graduate) during one term (quarter or semester).  

• Combined groups are racial/ethnic identities that have number counts too small to share individually. These groups include, African American, Asian Pacific Islander Desi American, Native American/Indigenous, and Multiracial.

Currently we have data for Academic Year 2024-25, which is shown above. Data reflects fall state-support enrollment counts and represents estimates based on available reporting at the time of collection. Each year, we plan to update this data and archive previous years with access on our web page.

*The six colleges at Cal Poly are the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), the College of Engineering (CENG), the Bailey College of Science and Mathematics (BCSM), the College of Agricultural, Food and Evnironmental Sciences (CAFES), the College of Architecture and Environmental Design (CAED) and the Orfalea College of Business (OCOB).  

The data shown above was pulled from Institutional Research in February, 2025. Feel free to reach out to us at studentswithdependents@calpoly.edu if you want to connect.