At very competitive private schools, it's 3.9%.īut here's the good news. At highly competitive private schools, the next rung down, that figure is 0.7%. Yet while 14% of students at the nation's 100 most selective colleges are transfers, only 5% come from community colleges.īroken down further, at the most competitive private institutions, 0.9% of students are community college transfers. More than 35,000 community college transfer students enroll at selective colleges and universities each year, the report notes. How do community college students, in particular, fit into this picture? A report from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation titled "Persistence: The Success of Students Who Transfer from Community Colleges to Selective Four-Year Institutions," offers mixed findings.
But while community college enrollment dropped 9.4% compared to 2019-2020, upward transfers - students moving from two-year to four-year schools - declined by only 1.3%.Īt the same time, transfers to highly selective institutions actually grew 10.3% last year, compared to 0.3% the year before, while less-competitive and noncompetitive institutions experienced transfer declines of 4.4% and 11.6%, respectively. Last year, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges nationwide lost 191,500 transfer students. That population was divided evenly between students transferring from two-year and four-year colleges. In 2016, 30% of college students were transfers. Transfer students constitute a significant portion of the student population on U.S. Transfers to Selective Colleges Increasing But Still Low Only a relative handful will find their way to America's most highly selective universities. Many will attend public universities in their home state. About 30% of them will eventually transfer to a four-year institution. Nationwide, 41% of American college students attend a community college. Universities have support systems to help transfers acclimate to university life.Of that group, only 5% attend highly selective colleges - but that same group thrives academically.About 30% of community college students transfer to four-year schools.The Public Ivies, Little Ivies, and Other Ivy League Equivalents.
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