Finally, we ranked the colleges based on a combination of the 4-year and 6-year graduation rate for transfer students, as well as the share of transfer students on campus. Data released last year show that transfer students as a group earn degrees at a higher rate than their first-time peers, so we also removed any colleges where transfer students completed at a lower rate than their peers.
For this list, we then eliminated any college that ranked in the bottom half and any where transfer students in the fall of 2017 comprised less than 15% of enrollment-the median among Money's ranked colleges. We started with our 2018 Best Colleges ranking, a list of 727 colleges that provide an ideal combination of educational quality, affordability, and alumni success. So Money used newly available federal data on completion rates for transfer students to highlight colleges where transfer students are succeeding in large numbers. The hurdles associated with transferring credits can affect how long it takes and how much it costs to earn a degree. Transfers between private colleges or a public and a private, which are less common, resulted in even more lost credits.
Government Accountability Office study showed that students who transferred between public schools lost an estimated 37% of their credits. In fact, more than a third of undergrads transfer schools at least once.ĭespite its prevalence, however, transferring can prove tricky-particularly to take the credits you've already earned with you.Ī 2014 report from the National Center for Education Statistics found that students who transferred lost an average of 13 credits, equal to nearly an entire semester's worth of tuition.
For millions of students, the path to a degree isn't a straight shot through a single college.
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