{"id":20494,"date":"2023-08-15T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2024-10-24T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:24:39","slug":"the-end-game-exploring-graduation-rates-of-cc-transfers-to-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2023\/08\/15\/the-end-game-exploring-graduation-rates-of-cc-transfers-to-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Game: Exploring Graduation Rates of CC Transfers to Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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With the academic calendar signaling the start of a new school year, this blog post will serve as the last installment of our summer series on community colleges in Texas. Our previous posts\u00a0looked at enrollment trends<\/a> at community colleges, including the importance of dual credit in Texas<\/a>, as well as challenges facing transfer students<\/a>\u00a0seeking to transition from 2-to-4 year institutions<\/a>. In this blog post, we will look at data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) “Transfer Report 2022<\/a>” that shows how successful community college transfers have been in earning a bachelor’s degree within four years of being classified as a college junior.<\/p>

Completion Rates for Junior Cohorts<\/i> is\u00a0one of the primary success metrics used in the THECB’s Transfer Report.\u00a0To create the junior cohorts, undergraduate students enrolled as juniors during the fall semester were included.\u00a0Students who were juniors at the same university where they were first-time-in-college students were identified as “non-transfer” students, while those who were juniors who had transferred from a community college were identified as “community college transfer” students. Cohort members were then tracked for four academic years to see if they graduated with a bachelors degree in order to calculate a completion rate.<\/div>
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  • As can be seen in the Statewide Trends<\/b><\/u> visualization below, 86% of\u00a0non-transfer students and 68% of community college transfers in the fall 2017 cohort earned their degree within four years of becoming juniors at their university. <\/b>This represents an 18-percentage point difference between the two cohorts.<\/li>
  • Over the course of the 13 years in the Transfer Report, the averages remained fairly steady for each group<\/b>: 84% for non-transfer students and 66% for community college transfer students in the junior cohorts.<\/li>
  • Under the Peer Group Comparisons<\/u><\/b> tab, we can see that the two Research Institutions (Texas A&M University and University of Texas at Austin) collectively have the highest graduation rates for both non-transfer and community college transfer students. The group of Doctoral Institutions have the lowest graduation rates for non-transfer students at 79%, while community college transfers fare worst at the Master’s Institutions in Texas with a graduation rate of 62%<\/b>.<\/li><\/ul>
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