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626S (W): Students Who Earned a Chancellor’s Office Approved Credit or Noncredit Certificate

Number of unduplicated students who earned a Chancellor’s Office approved credit or noncredit certificate on the selected TOP code in the selected year and who were enrolled in the same district in the selected year where and when the student earned the award

Value Type

Unduplicated count of students

Data Source(s)

Chancellor's Office Management Information System

  • To align to the SCFF definition for completion, the student has to be enrolled in the selected year at any college in the district.
  • For FY2019-20 SCFF, if a student earns multiple awards in a year, that student is only counted once for the attainment of the highest level of award, which is considered to be an associate degree for transfer. Therefore, the student count for this metric will NOT match with SCFF counts if there are students who are excluded from this category because they earned award in higher levels.
  • Students who have earned multiple Chancellor’s Office Approved Certificates are counted once and deduplicated
  • Does not include local awards. Excludes certificates that require less than 6 units (SP02 = O)
  • The Vision Goals include Chancellor’s Office certificates with 12 to fewer than 18 semester units (or SP02 = B) and certificates with 8 to fewer than 16 units (SP02 = M). However, the Student Centered Funding Formula does not include B or M. The metric here is aligning to the Vision Goals.
  • “N” was added in summer 2019 for Certificate requiring 16 to fewer than 30 semester units
  • “M” was added in summer 2019 for Certificate requiring 8 to fewer than 16 semester units (approved by Chancellor’s Office)

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    122SW Students who met all of the following criteria:

    Earned a Chancellor’s Office approved credit certificate at the selected college
    SP02 IN (B, L, T, F, M, N)
    OR earned a Chancellor’s Office approved noncredit certificate at the selected college
    OR SP02 IN (H, I, J, K, P, Q, R)
    AND awarded on a valid TOP code
    AND CB03 is a valid TOP code in the Taxonomy of Programs manual
    AND in the selected year
    WHERE GI03 is within the selected year
    AND with a record in the Student Enrollment Data Elements (SX) file in the selected year on any valid TOP code in the district
    AND [Has a value in the Student Enrollment Data Elements (SX) file
    WHERE GI03 is within the selected year in the district AND

    Age Group, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Perkins Economically Disadvantaged

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    Last Updated

    07/13/2026

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    Metric Type

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