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Transfer enrollment is making a comeback, surpassing 2020 figures. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s fall 2024 Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report reveals that transfer enrollment, which comprises 13% of non-freshmen undergraduates, grew for the third straight year.
The ability to transfer between institutions provides students with greater flexibility in their postsecondary educational pathways. The Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report, which replaces the previous Transfer and Progress report series, finds that college transfer enrollment is now 7.9% greater than in the fall of 2020.
"The growth in transfers this fall is a further indication that students are adjusting postsecondary goals in response to changing education and labor market conditions," said Doug Shapiro, Executive Director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “That’s good news, especially for those who are able to return from stopouts by finding colleges that better meet their needs.”
Nearly 500,000 students transferred from a two-year to a four-year institution this past fall, a number that is now comparable to fall 2020 (-2,300, -0.5%). Although this remains the most common pathway for transfer students, the share of all transfer students that move from a two-year to a four-year institution declined 3.5 percentage points from fall 2020 to fall 2024.
Additional report highlights include:
Community College Transfer Enrollment: This past fall, 390,000 students transferred into a community college, an increase of 13.5% from the fall of 2020. However, total community college enrollment still has not recovered from pandemic declines (-52,300, -1.5% from fall 2020).
Continuing Transfer Students: The fall of 2024 saw the second straight year of enrollment growth for continuing transfer students — those who were enrolled at a different institution in the spring or summer term immediately prior.
View the complete Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report.
"The growth in transfers this fall is a further indication that students are adjusting postsecondary goals in response to changing education and labor market conditions. That’s good news, especially for those who are able to return from stopouts by finding colleges that better meet their needs."
Doug Shapiro
Executive Director, National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
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The National Student Clearinghouse will be featuring our admissions process game changer, PDF-to-Data, and much more at Ellucian Live in San Antonio on April 7-10. You’ll want to make time to catch our sessions and chat with a Clearinghouse rep in the Clearinghouse booth #610.
Join us for the Clearinghouse’s featured sessions:
Got Data? Time to Digitize Your Academic and Experiential Achievements!
Monday, April 8 at 2:15 pm (Solution Showcase)
The Clearinghouse offers a one-stop shop for the secure exchange of academic credentials based on open standards to enable your learners to advance their academic and career opportunities. We will highlight how the Clearinghouse can securely deliver flexible solutions for your institution with the established PDF, EDI, and XML formats, and emerging credentials such as the CLR, LER, and badges.
Admissions at the Speed of Light: A Clearinghouse Transcript Solution
Monday, April 8 at 4:30 pm (Session ACA-1722P)
You have all experienced it: You generate the interest of prospective students, they apply, and then there is the wait for the incoming transcript to be processed and articulated, which can take weeks during peak time, risking your investment into recruiting. The Clearinghouse will show you a new solution that will help you get to articulation in minutes instead of weeks.
Getting the Answers You Need: Leveraging Clearinghouse Custom Research
Tuesday, April 9 at 2:30 pm (Session INS-1765P)
This session will cover the Clearinghouse’s data sources, coverage, and breadth, and will provide examples of the diverse array of research questions we can help answer. The goal of this session is to spark curiosity in participants, who will walk away with research ideas and questions that Clearinghouse custom research can help solve.
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