StudentTracker 3.0 Offers On-Demand Reporting to Boost Learner Success
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 Offers On-Demand Reporting to Boost Learner Success
The National Student Clearinghouse will soon release StudentTracker 3.0, a major upgrade to StudentTracker for High Schools. One of the convenient features it introduces is on-demand reporting. Academic leaders can request learner data whenever they need to understand their high school graduates’ postsecondary pathways, including transfer patterns, stop-out behavior, and completion rates.
Users can download the relevant reports directly from StudentTracker 3.0, including:
- Student-Level Detail Report: With the student-level detail report, users can choose the high school cohort in which they are interested. The report automatically includes new data available in StudentTracker 3.0, such as dual enrollment and credential records. There are also new columns of data depicting degree-level mapping, class level, and enrollment CIP, providing a comprehensive picture of each student’s progress.
- Analysis-Ready Report: The analysis-ready report provides detailed information for each student in a single row, so users can easily import it into their analytics software. Key outcomes are highlighted allowing users to prioritize efforts and focus on individual student needs efficiently.
- Aggregate-Level CSV Files: The aggregate-level CSV report allows users to see the counts for each of the KPI visualization outcomes. This report is provided at the account level and includes counts for each high school associated with the account.
StudentTracker is a valuable resource for understanding student outcomes and improving educational strategies through data-driven insights. StudentTracker 3.0 will empower academic leaders to better evaluate their programs’ effectiveness with on-demand reporting on their students’ long-term academic success. Learn more about StudentTracker 3.0.
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