FAQ: AB 123/SB 70

Financial Aid

A student is considered to have received aid if they were awarded and received a non‑zero amount from any of the listed aid types: Cal Grant A, Cal Grant B, Cal Grant C, the Foster Youth Access Award, Students with Dependents, and the Middle Class Scholarships.

The categories of aid included in CAL_GRANT_ONLY reporting include: Cal Grant A, Cal Grant B, Cal Grant C, the Foster Youth Access Award, and Students with Dependents.

The four grant categories are separate and disjoint. Individuals attending an institution can only report in one aid category. To see outcomes for all students at an institution, institution-level totals can be computed as:
CAL_GRANT_ONLY + MCS_ONLY + CAL_GRANT_AND_MCS + NEITHER_CAL_GRANT_NOR_MCS = TOTAL.

For instance, students who received the Middle Class Scholarship and Cal Grant are reported in the CAL_GRANT_AND_MCS category and are not included in any other category.

If any of these values are suppressed, totals cannot be accurately computed and this expression will undercount the number of students.

Suppression

In order to protect students’ information and comply with C2C’s suppression policy, we mask certain cells if they represent a small number of students (i.e., 11 or fewer) or if they could reidentify a cell containing fewer than 11 students.

A value of -1 indicates the cell does not meet C2C’s suppression policy because it reflects fewer than 11 individuals or could be used to infer information about fewer than 11 individuals. These cells are masked to protect student privacy.

C2C does not currently receive student‑parent data. This field may populate in future reporting if the data becomes available.

To adhere to suppression protocols while maintaining male and female reporting, noise is added to male and female counts when the non‑binary category is suppressed. This ensures the total is correct while protecting the privacy of non‑binary students.

Outcomes and Definition

CSU and UC indicate in their P20W submissions whether a student applied from a California Community College. If that flag is active when a student applies from CCC, they are considered a transfer student.

Persistence means a student enrolls in an institution and remains enrolled at the same institution in the following academic year(s). Individuals who move engage in four-year to four-year or two-year to two-year institutions are defined as not persisting.

For CCC students: On‑time graduation means obtaining an Associate Degree for transfer (ADT), Associate of Arts (AA), or Community College Bachelor’s degree within two academic years at the same institution.

For UC and CSU students: On‑time graduation means obtaining a Bachelor’s degree within four years.

Individuals who move laterally from four-year to four-year or two-year to two-year institutions are defined as not graduating.

No, C2C does not receive award data at the term level. This is one of the reasons why this reporting may be lower than how other institutions define their on-time graduation.

Yes. Transfer students are included in both overall totals and as a separate reporting category. All students, including transfer students, follow the same 100% time (four‑year) and 150% time (six‑year) graduation definitions, measured from the time of transfer. This definition may upwardly bias reporting relative to how data providers report their information.

The dashboard includes all students who enrolled for the first time at the institution and attempted a full‑time load (12+ units) in at least one semester during the starting academic year. Students with prior dual enrollment at community colleges are treated as first‑time students when they subsequently enroll.

Aside from transfer reporting, cross‑institutional outcomes are not included. This maintains consistency with CSAC’s reporting framework.

No, they would not. Private institutions are limited in their ability to report cross-institution metrics. In order to align public and private reporting, CSAC requested this reporting not include cross-institutional outcomes other than transfer.

Data Reconciliation and Methodology

This dataset uses different aggregation methods, inclusion criteria, outcome definitions, and focuses specifically on students who enrolled full‑time for at least one semester. Because of these differences, results may not reconcile with other published sources.

No. Although C2C receives some AICCU data, public reporting for AICCU institutions will be provided directly by CSAC on their dashboard.

C2C uses a combination of deterministic and probabilistic matching to track transfer outcomes and financial aid receipt. All other linkages rely on provider-submitted connections.

Please reach out to info@c2c.ca.gov

The dashboard link will be available on August 1, 2026.

Below are a list of potential resources that may provide additional information on UC,CSU, or CCC reporting: