User Demographics

In an effort to determine who the users are and what they do at the computer rooms, Computer Lab Management tracks information on user affiliation including their primary college affiliation.

User Affiliation

Over 97 percent of the users are students with over 17,994 graduate and undergraduate students logging on to one of the 15 Computer Lab Management facilities. This number represents 66 percent of all undergraduate and graduate students (including professional schools) at UC Davis. CLM served approximately 72 percent of the undergraduate population and 19 percent of the graduate and professional student population. There were 103 faculty members who also logged into one or more of our facilities, typically logging in during scheduled class times. Staff logins represented two percent or 371 people.

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Student users' College/School

A majority of the students who use our facilities are undergraduate students. CLM served over 72 percent of the undergraduate students during the Spring 2004 quarter. The graph below illustrates the users by their college or school.

 

While the largest group of students come from the College of Letters and Science, the largest percentage of any college belongs to the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. Over 73 percent of the College of Engineering students used our facility during the quarter. Professional schools, having a greater level of computer support for their students, had the least proportion of their population utilizing the various central computing facilities.

The level of support as well as laptop ownership and school support may indicate why few students from professional schools utilize our facilities. Another factor might be geographic location of professional schools to our computing facilities.

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