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Average Transfer-out Rate At U.S. Colleges

What Is The Average Transfer-out Rate?

The transfer-out rate is a percentage graduate candidates who transferred-out to other schools. The average transfer-out rate of U.S. colleges is 17.53%. 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 16.57% and private schools' rate is 23.02%. By school levels, the transfer out rate is 20.88% and community colleges' rate is 14.49% in .
By gender, the female students' transfer-out rate is 12.23% and male students' rate is 12.35%.
The next schools are the top 5 U.S. colleges that have the highest transfer-out rate. Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi has the highest transfer-out rate of 45% among U.S. colleges. Arapahoe Community College and Concordia University-Chicago also have higher transfer-out rate of 43% and 43% respectively. For the ranking, we exclude community colleges and four-colleges with less than 5,000 students.
The following table summarizes the average transfer-out rate in United States.
The Average Transfer-out Rate
TotalPublicPrivate (not-for-profit)Private (for-profit)
Total17.53%16.57%23.02%8.97%
4 years or high20.88%18.51%23.35%15.62%
2-4 years14.49%15.40%15.93%7.55%
less than 1 year6.73%12.70%15.67%5.47%

Transfer-out Rate for BS Degree Granting Schools

For the four-years institutions where BS degree grants, the average transfer-out rate is 12.29%. 188,394 students transferred-out to other schools among 1,533,457 graduate candidates. 983,901 students graduated in 150% of normal time (i.e. 6 years) and 29,806 students are still enrolled in U.S. colleges.
The following table summarizes the transfer-out rate by gender with the graduation rate for U.S. collegesNumbers in parentheses in each column indicate the number of students over candidates in the corresponding category.
Transfer-out Rate by Gender at U.S. colleges
TotalFemale StudentsMale Students
Transfer-out12.29%
(188,394/1,533,457)
12.35%
(86,031/696,575)
12.23%
(102,363/836,882)
Graduation Rate (in 150% normal time)64.16%
(983,901/1,533,457)
60.72%
(422,974/696,575)
67.03%
(560,927/836,882)
No longer Enrolled1.94%
(29,806/1,533,457)
2.33%
(16,251/696,575)
1.62%
(13,555/836,882)
Still Enrolled21.20%
(325,102/1,533,457)
24.24%
(168,831/696,575)
18.67%
(156,271/836,882)