Average Transfer-out Rate At Alabama Colleges

The transfer-out rate is a percentage graduate candidates who transferred-out to other schools. The average transfer-out rate of Alabama colleges is 22.46%. It includes all institutions' rate (i.e. 4-years and 2-years or less) where the transfer-out information is available. In public colleges, the transfer-out rate is 22.97% and private schools' rate is 23.00%. By school levels, the transfer out rate is 21.74% and community colleges' rate is 23.09% in Alabama.

By gender, the female students' transfer-out rate is 19.94% and male students' rate is 19.38%.

The next schools are the top 5 Alabama colleges that have the highest transfer-out rate. Alabama A & M University has the highest transfer-out rate of 34% among Alabama colleges. Auburn University at Montgomery and University of South Alabama also have higher transfer-out rate of 34% and 30% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude community colleges and four-colleges with less than 5,000 students.

For the four-years Alabama institutions where BS degree grants, the average transfer-out rate is 19.69%. 5,738 students transferred-out to other schools among 29,140 graduate candidates. 17,173 students graduated in 150% of normal time (i.e. 6 years) and 684 students are still enrolled in Alabama colleges.

The following table summarizes the transfer-out rate by gender with the graduation rate for Alabama collegesNumbers in parentheses in each column indicate the number of students over candidates in the corresponding category.