StudentTracker 3.0 Delivers! Data Visualizations, On-Demand Reporting & More
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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StudentTracker 3.0 Delivers! Data Visualizations, On-Demand Reporting & More
Major Upgrade to StudentTracker for High Schools
The National Student Clearinghouse is getting ready to unveil StudentTracker® 3.0, a major upgrade to StudentTracker for High Schools. With StudentTracker for High Schools, you can accurately track the postsecondary success of your high school graduates nationwide. With StudentTracker 3.0, we’ve made it simple for users — high schools, districts, consortiums, and state departments of education — to access and interact with student data and quickly obtain learner insights.
What’s New in StudentTracker 3.0?
StudentTracker 3.0 is designed to elevate your educational research and analysis. Its features were built based on user feedback, such as a streamlined interface that makes navigating and accessing the data you need more accessible than ever. Other new features that will be introduced in StudentTracker 3.0, include:
- Interactive Dashboards: The previously static PDF reports have been replaced with dynamic visualizations.
- Key Performance Indicators: The three key metrics you need to understand your student cohorts’ progress — enrollment, persistence and retention, and graduation — are available in real time.
- On-Demand Reports: You can generate the student-level detail report and analysis-ready report whenever you need them.
- New Learner Outcomes: Dual enrollment and credentials earned, persistence, and additional credential information will be available in StudentTracker 3.0.
StudentTracker 3.0 empowers you to analyze educational data like never before. Watch our video to learn how.
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