{"id":20545,"date":"2024-03-01T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/?p=20545"},"modified":"2025-09-15T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:47:07","slug":"the-complexity-of-calculating-transfer-students-graduation-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tamus.edu\/data-science\/2024\/03\/01\/the-complexity-of-calculating-transfer-students-graduation-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complexity of Calculating Transfer Students\u2019 Graduation Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The National Student Clearinghouse released their “Transfer and Progress: Fall 2023 Report<\/a>” this week, as the data showed that\u00a0students transferring into a new institution increased by 5.3 percent when compared to fall 2022.<\/b>\u00a0Interestingly, upward transfer students (from 2-year to 4-year institutions) gained the most with a 7.7-percent increase, which is the first increase since the pandemic started 4 years ago. The release of this report coincides with a shift of focus in our continuing blog series using the IPEDS Outcome Measures (OM)<\/a> data.\u00a0While our previous\u00a0<\/span>blog posts<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0have focused on graduation rates for traditional full-time, first-time entering students, <\/span>o<\/b><\/span>ne of the benefits of the\u00a0<\/span>IPEDS Outcome Measures (OM) data is that it tracks students who are “Non-First-Time” enrollees (i.e., transfer students) as well. <\/span>In this blog post, we will explore graduation rates for full-time transfer students at public universities in Texas to deepen our understanding of this often-overlooked group of undergraduates.\u00a0<\/span>Note<\/u><\/i>:\u00a0<\/span>Because the OM data includes 8-year graduation rate data, we continue to use the most recent data from the 2014 fall cohort in our analysis of transfer student graduation rates<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Statewide Averages for Public Universities in Texas<\/u><\/b><\/p>

  • The stacked bar chart below shows data for 4-, 6-, and 8-year graduation rates across all public universities in Texas for non-first-time (transfer), full-time entering students who completed their bachelor\u2019s degree at the original university to which they transferred.\u00a0<\/li>
  • The first segment (light blue) aligns to the 4-year graduation rate, while the second segment (darker blue) aligns to the 6-year graduation rate, and the third segment (purple) aligns to the 8-year graduation rate.<\/li>
  • The “clock” for measuring time-to-degree started in fall 2014 with initial transfer enrollment. Degree completion status was calculated at the end of AY2018 for 4-year, AY2020 for 6-year, and AY2022 for 8-year graduation rates.<\/li>
  • The statewide average for full-time transfer students who completed their degree within 4 years of initial transfer enrollment was 58% in the fall 2014 cohort. That percentage jumped to 66% for the \u201cBachelors in 6 Years\u201d rate, bumping up slightly to 68% when the timeframe extends to 8 years after entering the university.<\/b><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Graduation Rates for Public Universities in Texas: Full-time Transfer Students<\/h5>\r\n