Average Transfer-out Rate At Texas Colleges

The transfer-out rate is a percentage graduate candidates who transferred-out to other schools. The average transfer-out rate of Texas colleges is 19.20%. 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 21.65% and private schools' rate is 25.68%. By school levels, the transfer out rate is 26.10% and community colleges' rate is 17.16% in Texas.

By gender, the female students' transfer-out rate is 16.64% and male students' rate is 17.88%.

The next schools are the top 5 Texas colleges that have the highest transfer-out rate. Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi has the highest transfer-out rate of 45% among Texas colleges. Austin Community College District and University of Houston-Downtown also have higher transfer-out rate of 39% and 39% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude community colleges and four-colleges with less than 5,000 students.

For the four-years Texas institutions where BS degree grants, the average transfer-out rate is 17.19%. 16,862 students transferred-out to other schools among 98,064 graduate candidates. 58,536 students graduated in 150% of normal time (i.e. 6 years) and 2,760 students are still enrolled in Texas colleges.

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