Average Transfer-out Rate At Maryland Colleges

The transfer-out rate is a percentage graduate candidates who transferred-out to other schools. The average transfer-out rate of Maryland colleges is 19.39%. 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 20.96% and private schools' rate is 25.08%. By school levels, the transfer out rate is 24.04% and community colleges' rate is 19.50% in Maryland.

By gender, the female students' transfer-out rate is 16.49% and male students' rate is 14.39%.

The next schools are the top 5 Maryland colleges that have the highest transfer-out rate. Bowie State University has the highest transfer-out rate of 30% among Maryland colleges. Morgan State University and Salisbury University also have higher transfer-out rate of 27% and 21% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude community colleges and four-colleges with less than 5,000 students.

For the four-years Maryland institutions where BS degree grants, the average transfer-out rate is 15.49%. 3,274 students transferred-out to other schools among 21,138 graduate candidates. 14,773 students graduated in 150% of normal time (i.e. 6 years) and 339 students are still enrolled in Maryland colleges.

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