More than One-Third College Students Transfer - National Student Clearinghouse Research Center

Of the 3.6 million students who entered college for the first time in fall 2008, over one third (37.2 percent) transferred to a different institution at least once within six years. Of these, almost half changed their institution more than once (45 percent). Counting multiple moves, the students made 2.4 million transitions from one institution to another from 2008 to 2014. This report defines student transfer and mobility as any change in a student’s institution of enrollment irrespective of the timing, direction, or location of the move, and regardless of whether any credits were transferred from one institution to another. The transfer rate reported here considers the student’s first instance of movement to a different institution, before receiving a bachelor’s degree and within a period of six years. For those students who began at two-year public institutions, we also include transfers that happened after receiving a degree at the starting two-year institution. (ed note: thanks to report at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/07/08/more-third-college-students-transfer) http://nscresearchcenter.org/signaturereport9/#ExecutiveSummary