Student-Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates

Federal Student-Right-to-Know regulations call for colleges and universities to report the graduation and transfer rates of "full-time, first-time degree or certificate-seeking undergraduates entering the institution on or after September 1, 1996."  These rates are based on degree completion or transfer-out within "150% of normal time," which for a two-year institution would be three years. The rates do not include those students who may have taken longer than three years to graduate or transfer.

In reviewing these rates, it should be noted that Chesapeake College is a two-year public community college which has adopted an open admissions policy in keeping with its philosophy of providing citizens with access to postsecondary education. Thus students attend the College with a wide variety of goals including exploring transfer or career courses/programs and obtaining associate degrees and certificates.

The source for the graduation and transfer-out rates is the Graduation Rate Survey (GRS), a report submitted annually to the U.S. Department of Education. It should be noted that at this time the number of transfers-out refers ONLY to those transferring to a Maryland public college or university and not to a Maryland private institution or any out-of-state institution.

In the 2003 cohort of first-time degree- or certificate-seeking students at Chesapeake, 10% graduated within 150% of normal time and another 13% transferred to another Maryland public two- or four-year college or university. The combined graduation and transfer rate was 23%. There were an additional 19% who were still enrolled at Chesapeake at the three-year mark.

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