What is the ratio of in-state/out-of-state graduate students in the sociology department?
The answer to this question is complicated because of the link between California residency and tuition. After one year of residency in California, U.S. citizens or permanent residents may become California residents and be eligible for lower tuition rates. Upon entering our program we expect all admitted out-of-state students to follow the necessary steps that will qualify them to become residents for tuition purposes in their second year. In Fall 2006 about one quarter of all enrolled students in our program were non-residents, most of whom were foreign students who cannot become residents for tuition purposes. Thus all U.S. citizens and/or permanent residents from out-of-state will be nonresidents for one year only. We do not take state residency into consideration as a criterion for admission. We aim to admit the best international and national graduate students.
