Four-year College Transfer from

Central Virginia 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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Students Transferring into Central Virginia Community College in the Fall and Spring of the Designated Year

	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
a. Total Transfers	326	340	304	278	283	277
b. Men - Total	137	154	153	119	130	130
c. Women - Total	189	186	151	159	153	147
d. Majority Students - Total	273	267	245	225	222	224
e. Majority Students - Men	122	122	123	100	108	110
f. Majority Students - Women	151	145	122	125	114	114
g. Students of Color - Total	53	73	59	53	61	53
h. Students of Color - Men	15	32	30	19	22	20
i. Students of Color - Women	38	41	29	34	39	33

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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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Central Virginia Community College
All Students
Students Transferring from Central Virginia Community College
in Fall and Spring of the Designated Year

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

	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
Public Institutions
Christopher Newport University (detail)	1	0	0	1	0	0
George Mason University (detail)	1	3	3	2	10	3
James Madison University (detail)	3	8	7	3	4	14
Longwood University (detail)	15	14	9	18	4	6
Norfolk State University (detail)	2	0	0	1	2	2
Old Dominion University (detail)	20	27	17	24	21	15
Radford University (detail)	21	19	17	12	9	13
University of Mary Washington (detail)	2	0	1	1	0	1
University of Virginia (detail)	15	13	8	9	10	10
University of Virginia's College at Wise (detail)	1	1	0	1	0	0
Virginia Commonwealth University (detail)	21	20	19	8	8	9
Virginia Military Institute (detail)	0	0	2	1	1	0
Virginia State University (detail)	0	1	1	0	0	1
Virginia Tech (detail)	21	22	17	15	19	22
William & Mary (detail)	0	0	4	2	1	1
Total Public Four-Year Institutions (detail)	123	128	105	98	89	97
Private Institutions
Averett University (detail)	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bluefield College (detail)	2	0	4	0	0	1
Bridgewater College (detail)	1	1	0	1	1	0
Eastern Mennonite University (detail)	0	1	1	1	0	0
Emory & Henry College (detail)	0	0	1	0	1	0
Ferrum College (detail)	0	2	1	1	2	4
Hampden-Sydney College (detail)	0	0	0	0	2	0
Hollins University (detail)	0	1	1	0	0	0
Jefferson College of Health Sciences (detail)	10	10	11	10	3	10
Liberty University (detail)	107	121	103	93	115	107
Mary Baldwin University (detail)	2	2	1	1	1	2
Marymount University (detail)	1	1	0	0	0	0
Randolph College (detail)	11	9	13	26	19	19
Randolph-Macon College (detail)	0	0	1	0	0	1
Regent University (detail)	1	1	2	1	2	1
Roanoke College (detail)	0	2	1	1	0	0
Shenandoah University (detail)	1	2	0	0	0	0
Southern Virginia University (detail)	2	0	0	0	0	1
Sweet Briar College (detail)	0	3	1	2	0	3
University of Lynchburg (detail)	61	54	53	37	48	31
University of Richmond (detail)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Virginia Union University (detail)	0	0	1	0	0	0
Virginia Wesleyan University (detail)	1	0	0	0	0	0
Averett University Non-Traditional (detail)	3	2	4	5	0	0
Total Private, Nonprofit, Four-Year Institutions (detail)	203	212	199	180	194	180

Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 are excluded from reporting.
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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 Central Virginia Community College in the Fall and Spring of the Designated Year

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

Degree Completion	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)	326	340	304	278	283	277
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs	25	30	28	29	29	29
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older	106	96	73	74	64	72
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs	195	214	203	175	190	176
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer with Pell	180	158	138	116	120	7
Student/Family Income at Entry
New Transfer, Family Income $0 - $49,999	164	144	122	113	108	7
New Transfer, Family Income $50,000 - $99,999	77	82	72	62	63	2
New Transfer, Family Income $100,000 - $149,999	30	41	38	47	36	1
New Transfer, Family Income $150,000 and Greater	15	19	21	20	20	0
New Transfer, Family Income Not Reported	40	54	51	36	56	267
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year	21	18	21	14	12	14
Transfer-specific Characteristics
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer	113	118	91	95	78	86
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits	42	51	60	24	37	31
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)	6	5	7	0	9	5
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer	147	143	118	134	139	133
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer	126	127	101	123	122	116
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer	16	13	13	7	11	15
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer	5	3	4	4	6	2
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)	16	18	20	19	16	22

Starting cohorts of fewer than 10 are excluded from reporting.
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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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All Students
Students Transferring to Central Virginia 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	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)(detail)	81%	81%	74%	81%	76%	66%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	84%	96%	73%	89%	76%	76%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older(detail)	83%	73%	72%	74%	73%	53%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs(detail)	80%	84%	74%	83%	77%	69%
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant)(detail)	100%	100%	83%		93%	81%
New Transfer with Pell(detail)	71%	77%	68%	78%	73%	62%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year(detail)	63%	19%	22%	38%	14%	25%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward)(detail)	100%	100%	83%		93%	81%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer(detail)	67%	73%	58%	68%	71%	67%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits(detail)	82%	76%	75%	87%	79%	76%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)(detail)	91%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer(detail)	97%	88%	87%	88%	81%	65%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer(detail)	95%	92%	86%	92%	82%	66%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer(detail)		62%	77%	54%		73%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer(detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)(detail)	74%	81%	67%	95%	68%	56%

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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 Central Virginia 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	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All) (detail)	58%	47%	58%	58%	62%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	66%	61%	60%	60%	71%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older (detail)	57%	40%	44%	51%	51%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs (detail)	56%	48%	65%	60%	65%
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant) (detail)	109%	60%	100%	89%
New Transfer with Pell (detail)	52%	41%	53%	50%	55%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year (detail)	25%	21%	5%	0%	29%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward) (detail)	109%	60%	94%	89%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer (detail)	46%	33%	32%	40%	49%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits (detail)	67%	42%	52%	53%	53%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA) (detail)		73%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer (detail)	80%	65%	82%	73%	81%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer (detail)	81%	66%	86%	74%	85%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer (detail)	70%		50%	54%	46%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer (detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical) (detail)	60%	32%	50%	67%	55%

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