Table 1.

Survey demographics and response rate

Students		Enrolled at UCSF	Responded to survey	% Responded
Year	1	138	84	60.9
	2	121	80	66.1
	3	142	88	62.0
	4	105	69	65.7
	5	114	58	50.9
	6	78	49	62.8
	7 or higher	55	21	38.2
	Unreported		20
Graduate program	Bioengineeringa	176a	67	38.1a
	Biomedical Sciences	135	88	65.2
	Biophysics	63	39	61.9
	Biological and Medical Informatics	32	21	65.6
	Chemistry and Chemical Biology	45	28	62.2
	Neuroscience	91	64	70.3
	Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics	51	33	64.7
	Tetrad	160	122	76.3
	Cell Biology	—	39	—
	Developmental Biology	—	7	—
	Genetics	—	16	—
	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	—	50	—
	Tetrad—focus not yet determined	—	10	—
	Unreported		7
Gender	Female	368	249	67.7
	Male	385	205	53.2
	Unreported		15
Ethnicityb	American Indian or Alaskan Native	—	1	—
	Asian	—	102	—
	Black or African American	—	10	—
	Hispanic or Latino	—	26	—
	Pacific Islander	—	8	—
	White	—	298	—
	Other	—	9	—
	Unreported		37
OVERALL		753	469	62.3

^aAll graduate programs returned a response rate of more than 60%, with the exception of Bioengineering, a joint graduate program with UC Berkeley. The response rate for Bioengineering students (38.1%) is likely lower because 62% of Bioengineering graduate students identify UC Berkeley as their home campus and many of these students may have ignored the survey request.

^bRespondents could choose more than one category to describe their ethnicity. Response rates were not calculated because ethnic categories were defined differently in our study compared with those on file through university enrollments.