This dashboard provides a view of transfer student rates and other outcomes for students, such as credentials earned before or after transfer by cohort year.

Watch the video below to learn more about the Transfer Dashboard.

How It Works

The dashboard includes information on transfer students who earned a certificate, associate degree, or bachelor’s degree or did not earn a credential before or after transfer. It also displays your institution’s overall transfer rate.

The dashboard displays data for up to six cohorts for up to eight years after a student’s first enrollment (when available). When you select a timeframe and a cohort, the dashboard will only display data for cohorts in which the full timeframe has elapsed.

Dashboard Settings

This dashboard includes three unique filters:

• Transferred Within: This filter limits the population of students displayed to only those who transferred within a specific time period. You can select from timeframes of up to eight years. The timeframes are not cumulative.
• Destination Institution Type: This filter allows you to select either two-year institutions, four-year institutions, or both.
• Earned Credit Milestones: This filter allows you to limit the data only to students who earned a certain amount of credits at your institution prior to transfer.

Dashboard Sections

Total Transfer-out

This section provides information on the total transfer-out rate for all cohort years. All filter selections in Chart Settings are global and will update these values. If you select a single cohort year, the numbers displayed will represent the transfer-out rate only for that cohort.

Transfer-Out 2-Year and Transfer-Out 4-Year

These sections provide information on the total number of students who meet your filter criteria and transferred to a two- or four-year institution.

Average Credits Earned Before Transfer

This section displays the average number of credits that students who meet your filter criteria earned before transferring.

Total Transfer Out by Dimension

This section shows your institution’s overall transfer rate across cohorts with disaggregation by dimension. Unlike other sections, this section includes the entire student population and calculates the transfer rate based on the entire cohort. The lines in this section do not show a longitudinal view of transfers. They show transfer trends from one cohort to the next based on the timeframe you select.

Credential Earned Post-Transfer by Dimension

This section disaggregates the data by different dimensions. Each box displays the relative percentage of students with an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, certificate, or no credential at another institution after transfer. The color of the boxes shows the breakdown by credential type while the size of each box shows the frequency of the composite outcomes. When you select a dimension, each box is subdivided into every student characteristic contained in this dimension for further comparison. Hover over a box to view additional information about the percentage of all students in each cohort as well as those of a particular demographic who achieved a specific outcome type.

You must select the cohort year within this section. The cohort filter does not apply. This section is limited to the population of transfer students, not the overall cohort.

Transfer-out with Credential Earned at Cohort Institution

This section provides an overview of how your institution’s outcomes have changed from one cohort to the next. The number of columns depends on how many cohort years you select (the default is six cohorts). The number of stacked bars within each column depends on the range of credentials earned for the options you select (certificate, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or no credential). Dimensions do not apply to this section.

Use Cases

Awarding Associate Degrees to Transfer-Out Students

Watch the video below to learn how to use the Transfer dashboard to understand the number of students who transferred to a four-year institution who could earn an associate degree retroactively.

Credentials Earned by Hispanic Male Students Before and After Transferring to a 4-Year Institution

Watch the video below to learn how to use the Transfer dashboard to understand the credentials earned by your Hispanic male student cohort before and after they transferred from your institution to a four-year institution.