Tag: College transfer

Website Helps Students Transfer Between Colleges

  One of most complex parts of college completion is the complex, confusing, and multiple barriers to transfering credits and satisfying requirements for majors. Often transfer agreements only pertain to a specific community college and a specific four year college major. Julia Murphy has compiled websites that will help students understand and navigate the transfer process.

   Murphy posted ( http://onlineuniversityrankings.org/2011/25-incredible-sites-to-learn-how-to-transfer-college-credits/ ). It’s called 25 Incredible Sites to Learn How to Transfer College Credits

Community College Transfers Succeed At Four Year Colleges

  There have been a number of articles verifying the sucess of community college transfers. Here is one of the best from Teachers College

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Baccalaureate Success of Transfers and Rising 4-Year College Juniors
by Tatiana Melguizo & Alicia.C. Dowd
The main objective of this study is to compare the effect of being a successful community college “transfer” student instead of a “rising junior” in a 4-year college on bachelor’s degree attainment. Logistic regression is used to estimate the effect of being a transfer student, and the effects and interplay of factors such as socioeconomic background and institutional selectivity on bachelor’s degree completion are estimated. The results indicate no difference in baccalaureate attainment for transfers after accounting for state-level characteristics.