Four-year College Transfer from

Blue Ridge Community College

Every four-year college and university in the Commonwealth that offers undergraduate programs has some kind of transfer agreement with Virginia's public two-year colleges. Transfer offers an affordable entry point to higher education with a variety of benefits to the student beyond cost. These benefits include additional academic support for those who may not feel "college-ready" or for those who are several years beyond high school graduation. Another benefit is that every Virginian is within an hour drive of a community college - one does not have to "go away" to go to college.

Transfer, though, is not seamless. In order to improve student success, and recognize when and where success is occurring, two-year colleges that produce transfer students and four-year colleges that receive them, need to be in a partnership to provide feedback to one another. This report is designed to provide that feedback, primarily to the two-year colleges, however, four-year colleges will find these data useful as well.

Each section below provides an overview of a specific aspect of transfer. There are links embedded to guide the user to greater detail.

Numbers of Transfers

The number of transfers annually from a two-year college, is an important base from which to begin analysis. We break those annual totals down into broad categories of race/ethnicity (majority students, students of color) and subdivide those by gender. In this way we develop a sense of the scope overall trends of transfer over eight eight years. Please note that there is always a lag in the most recent year of data available since students starting college in the spring semester are included in these cohorts and annual enrollment files are reported well after the fact.
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Blue Ridge Community College

Students Transferring from Blue Ridge Community College in the Fall and Spring of the Designated Year

	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
a. Total Transfers	396	364	329	284	279	291
b. Men - Total	176	148	167	116	119	117
c. Women - Total	220	216	162	168	160	174
d. Majority Students - Total	331	301	259	224	223	230
e. Majority Students - Men	146	119	134	95	94	91
f. Majority Students - Women	185	182	125	129	129	139
g. Students of Color - Total	65	63	70	60	56	61
h. Students of Color - Men	30	29	33	21	25	26
i. Students of Color - Women	35	34	37	39	31	35

Notes:

Full Legal Name - "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" (Virginia Tech); "The College of William and Mary" (William & Mary)

Where did they Transfer?

The next question of interest "Where did they Transfer" is answered below, also with annual counts. This provides important information to the two-year college and the public about the predominant transfer routes taken by students.
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Blue Ridge Community College
All Students
Students Transferring from Blue Ridge Community College
in Fall and Spring of the Designated Year

Color variation represents the low to high variation within each column.

	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Public Institutions
Christopher Newport University (details)	0	2	1	0	1	0
George Mason University (details)	11	8	9	9	1	3
James Madison University (details)	177	158	142	131	125	107
Longwood University (details)	1	1	1	2	1	1
Norfolk State University (details)	0	0	0	1	0	0
Old Dominion University (details)	20	24	23	18	20	30
Radford University (details)	10	9	6	6	6	6
University of Mary Washington (details)	2	1	4	1	1	2
University of Virginia (details)	5	9	6	10	14	9
University of Virginia's College at Wise (details)	0	1	1	0	0	0
Virginia Commonwealth University (details)	13	8	8	11	14	21
Virginia Military Institute (details)	1	0	1	0	0	0
Virginia State University (details)	0	0	0	1	0	1
Virginia Tech (details)	14	22	32	20	16	14
William & Mary (details)	2	1	0	2	0	0
Total Public Four-Year Institutions (details)	256	244	234	212	199	194
Private Institutions
George Washington University (details)	0	0	1	0	1	1
Bluefield University (details)	1	0	0	0	1	0
Bridgewater College (details)	18	11	15	15	20	13
Eastern Mennonite University (details)	32	38	33	22	13	10
Emory & Henry College (details)	0	0	0	0	0	1
Ferrum College (details)	0	1	1	0	1	0
Hollins University (details)	0	0	0	0	0	1
Liberty University (details)	28	31	36	31	21	36
Mary Baldwin University (details)	54	25	4	0	19	31
Marymount University (details)	0	1	1	0	0	1
Randolph-Macon College (details)	0	0	0	1	0	0
Regent University (details)	0	3	2	1	0	0
Roanoke College (details)	0	3	0	1	0	0
Shenandoah University (details)	1	1	1	1	1	2
Southern Virginia University (details)	3	0	0	0	0	0
University of Lynchburg (details)	0	0	0	0	1	1
University of Richmond (details)	0	0	0	0	1	0
Virginia Wesleyan University (details)	0	0	1	0	1	0
Total Private, Four-Year Institutions (details)	140	120	95	72	80	97

Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 are excluded from reporting.

Notes:

Full Legal Name - "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" (Virginia Tech); "The College of William and Mary" (William & Mary)

Status and Accomplishment at Transfer

Not unlike students who are first-time in college, transfer students arrive at four-year institutions with a variety of backgrounds and needs, and a collection of credits that may, or may not, have been well-chosen for ultimate success as transfer student into a bachelors degree. In this next table we observe some of these characteristics.
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All Students
Students Transferring to Blue Ridge Community College in the Fall and Spring of the Designated Year

Color variation represents the low to high variation within each column.

Degree Completion	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer with Pell	154	138	143	105	97	120
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs	33	25	21	26	23	35
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older	126	120	92	57	78	73
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs	237	219	216	201	178	183
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year	17	13	9	9	11	12
Student/Family Income at Entry
New Transfer, Family Income $0 - $49,999	146	130	132	96	107	99
New Transfer, Family Income $50,000 - $99,999	70	71	62	65	54	66
New Transfer, Family Income $100,000 - $149,999	40	38	36	34	35	29
New Transfer, Family Income $150,000 and Greater	18	16	17	19	15	20
New Transfer, Family Income Not Reported	122	109	82	70	68	77
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)	396	364	329	284	279	291
Transfer-specific Characteristics
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer	62	64	61	39	46	49
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits	60	50	42	34	36	37
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)	8	2	4	6	6	5
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer	207	195	187	184	157	170
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer	182	170	164	172	142	153
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer	19	17	17	11	10	13
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer	6	8	6	1	5	4
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)	59	55	34	18	31	30

Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 are excluded from reporting.

Notes:

Full Legal Name - "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" (Virginia Tech); "The College of William and Mary" (William & Mary)

First Year Retention of Transfer Students

Using the same characteristics provided in the previous table, we now look at how these students fair in terms of retention into the second year of enrollment. Since the cohorts below include students transferring into the four-year institution in both the fall term and the spring term, we count a student being retained as a fall transfer enrolling in the subsequent fall, and a spring transfer enrolling in the subsequent spring. While this may miss some students who demonstrate a more intermittent style of enrollment, those students will ultimately be counted in the completion rates - assuming, of course, they complete a degree.
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Blue Ridge Community College
All Students
Students Transferring to Blue Ridge Community College in Fall and Spring of the Designated Year, Retention into Second Year

Color variation represents the low to high variation within each column.

Subcohort	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant)(detail)	85%	89%	90%	87%	97%	82%
New Transfer with Pell(detail)	82%	72%	71%	71%	89%	51%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	87%	85%	80%	86%	85%	70%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older(detail)	80%	71%	61%	65%	68%	53%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs(detail)	88%	84%	81%	79%	88%	63%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year(detail)	23%	35%	31%			18%
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)(detail)	85%	80%	74%	76%	84%	61%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward)(detail)	85%	90%	90%	87%	97%	82%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer(detail)	82%	76%	86%	75%	82%	65%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits(detail)	90%	80%	82%	74%	88%	81%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)(detail)
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer(detail)	89%	81%	75%	79%	85%	64%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer(detail)	90%	85%	76%	83%	85%	65%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer(detail)	80%	53%	82%	47%	73%	30%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer(detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)(detail)	77%	78%	55%	56%	78%	26%

Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 are excluded from reporting.

Notes:

Full Legal Name - "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" (Virginia Tech); "The College of William and Mary" (William & Mary)

How Many Completed a Four-year Degree?

As a starting point, we look at the percentage of students in each cohort/subcohort that complete a four-year degree within four-years of transfer. Four years is chosen to provide a parallel equivalent to the six-year graduation rate used for bachelors degree-seeking students. In the available detail tables, we track student success out to 10 years post-entry.
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All Students
Four-year Completion Rates of Students Transferring to Blue Ridge Community College in Fall and Spring of the Designated Years
All Students

Color variation represents the low to high variation within each column.

Outcomes of cohorts with fewer than 10 students are excluded from display (blank cells).

Four-year Completion Rates
Degree Completion	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant) (detail)	110%	96%	110%	88%	42%
New Transfer with Pell (detail)	90%	79%	97%	65%	27%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	96%	76%	123%	52%	11%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older (detail)	81%	65%	72%	60%	15%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs (detail)	95%	84%	95%	66%	27%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year (detail)	23%			0%	0%
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All) (detail)	90%	78%	93%	63%	22%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward) (detail)	110%	96%	110%	88%	42%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer (detail)	75%	69%	62%	48%	2%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits (detail)	94%	86%	88%	53%	5%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA) (detail)
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer (detail)	96%	83%	98%	70%	32%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer (detail)	97%	89%	99%	70%	31%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer (detail)	88%	47%	82%	60%	38%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer (detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical) (detail)	84%	68%	111%	61%	20%

Notes:

Full Legal Name - "Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University" (Virginia Tech); "The College of William and Mary" (William & Mary)