Demand for higher education is up. But according to the report by the Public Policy Institute of California, the share of the state's high school graduates enrolling at a U-C or C-S-U campus is down; in 2007, it was 22 percent of all California high school grads. In 2010, it was less than 18 percent.
But the report finds that the share of high school students
completing college prep classes is actually up.
Over the past few years, both U-C and C-S-U have increased
tuition and limited enrollment as a result of state budget
cuts. Community college enrollment increased about one
percent from 2006 to 2009.
The P-P-I-C study also finds the number of high school grads
leaving to attend college in other states appears to be up.