According to our 6th annual Some College, No Credential (SCNC) report, over one million adults returned to higher education after previously stopping out. The report also found that college stopouts — students who leave without earning a credential — declined for the second consecutive year.
According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Transfer Enrollment and Pathways report, nearly 500,000 students who enrolled in a four-year institution in fall 2024 started their journey at a two-year college. That’s a 7.6% increase since 2022, reversing a two-year post-pandemic decline.
The Completing College 2023 report, from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, found that the six-year completion rate for the fall 2017 cohort was 62.2 percent, essentially unchanged since 2015.
Transfer enrollment from two-year colleges to four-year institutions, called upward transfer, fell nearly 8% in fall 2022 compared to the previous year, while reverse and lateral transfer began to rise, according to a new report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Over 76% of students who started college in the fall of 2022 returned for their second year, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Persistence and Retention report.
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As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re proud of the role that the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center plays in advancing Latinx higher education through the insights on postsecondary access and success its national reports provide to education leaders and policymakers.
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In May 2023, George Mason University awarded associate degrees to its first cohort of students as part of the university’s reverse transfer program.
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Dr. Doug Shapiro, Executive Director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, recaps some of the major trends the Research Center reported during this past academic year.