Transfer Students Have To Take Many Courses Twice
STOPPING THE CLOCK ON CREDITS THAT DON’T COUNT
A third of students now transfer sometime during their academic careers, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center says, and a quarter of those change schools more than once. When these students’ credits don’t transfer with them, they churn, seemingly endlessly, in college, piling up debt and wasting time repeating the same courses. It now takes full-time students, on average, 3.8 years to earn a two-year associate’s degree and 4.7 years to get a four-year bachelor’s degree, according to the advocacy organization Complete College America—further increasing the already high cost to families, and, at public universities, states. Only 61 percent of full-time students who set out to earn a four-year bachelor’s degree manage to do it within even eight years, Complete College America reports. The article is from the Hechinger Report ‘
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Some researchers suggest elite colleges and universities are partially to blame because they do not accept a community college’s credits. Correct this and speed up completion?
I was a transfer student once, and I would not have liked to take duplicate courses. In Texas most of the schools all have the same core classes to avoid this situation.