Four-year College Transfer from

Danville 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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Danville Community College

Students Transferring from Danville 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	133	137	99	90	81	81
b. Men - Total	62	55	34	30	27	29
c. Women - Total	71	82	65	60	54	52
d. Majority Students - Total	98	86	67	59	51	59
e. Majority Students - Men	48	39	26	22	18	25
f. Majority Students - Women	50	47	41	37	33	34
g. Students of Color - Total	35	51	32	31	30	22
h. Students of Color - Men	14	16	8	8	9	4
i. Students of Color - Women	21	35	24	23	21	18

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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Danville Community College
All Students
Students Transferring from Danville 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)	1	1	0	0	0	0
George Mason University (details)	0	4	1	2	0	1
James Madison University (details)	5	10	0	2	3	4
Longwood University (details)	9	7	4	7	1	6
Norfolk State University (details)	1	0	3	5	0	0
Old Dominion University (details)	8	10	11	7	10	7
Radford University (details)	4	5	12	3	3	4
University of Mary Washington (details)	0	1	0	0	0	0
University of Virginia (details)	2	3	1	2	4	2
University of Virginia's College at Wise (details)	0	2	0	0	0	0
Virginia Commonwealth University (details)	6	9	5	1	4	4
Virginia Military Institute (details)	0	1	0	0	0	0
Virginia State University (details)	5	1	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech (details)	10	9	1	9	3	3
William & Mary (details)	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total Public Four-Year Institutions (details)	51	63	38	38	28	32
Private Institutions
Averett University (details)	29	27	21	25	22	25
Bluefield University (details)	0	1	4	0	0	2
Bridgewater College (details)	0	0	1	0	1	0
Eastern Mennonite University (details)	0	1	0	1	0	0
Emory & Henry College (details)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ferrum College (details)	1	2	0	1	0	0
Liberty University (details)	28	21	24	18	26	20
Mary Baldwin University (details)	4	1	0	0	1	0
Randolph College (details)	2	0	0	0	0	0
Randolph-Macon College (details)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Regent University (details)	0	2	2	0	0	1
Shenandoah University (details)	2	0	0	0	0	0
Southern Virginia University (details)	0	0	1	0	0	0
Sweet Briar College (details)	0	0	0	0	0	0
University of Lynchburg (details)	4	1	1	1	3	1
Total Private, Four-Year Institutions (details)	82	74	61	52	53	49

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 Danville 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
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)	133	137	99	90	81	81
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs	14	14	8	9	3	10
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older	35	38	26	27	25	21
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs	84	85	65	54	53	50
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer with Pell	72	76	62	48	52	39
Student/Family Income at Entry
New Transfer, Family Income $0 - $49,999	65	70	54	47	46	37
New Transfer, Family Income $50,000 - $99,999	33	29	21	21	21	13
New Transfer, Family Income $100,000 - $149,999	16	10	11	10	4	11
New Transfer, Family Income $150,000 and Greater	3	6	7	2	5	8
New Transfer, Family Income Not Reported	16	22	6	10	5	12
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year	9	10	6	5	2	3
Transfer-specific Characteristics
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer	32	40	32	19	25	11
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits	16	17	12	12	8	13
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)	4	3	3	2	2	3
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer	56	56	36	39	27	34
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer	50	46	30	33	23	28
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer	4	8	2	5	4	5
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer	2	2	4	1	0	1
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)	23	20	14	14	17	19

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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Danville Community College
All Students
Students Transferring to Danville 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
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)(detail)	69%	74%	66%	72%	68%	53%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	80%	79%	79%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older(detail)	64%	60%	61%	65%	48%	32%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs(detail)	69%	80%	66%	72%	74%	64%
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant)(detail)	93%		64%			62%
New Transfer with Pell(detail)	71%	69%	70%	65%	73%	48%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year(detail)			10%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward)(detail)	93%		64%			62%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer(detail)	55%	72%	62%	59%	58%	40%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits(detail)	96%	81%	76%	108%	75%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)(detail)
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer(detail)	69%	82%	64%	75%	82%	74%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer(detail)	72%	84%	72%	80%	88%	74%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer(detail)
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer(detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)(detail)	68%	65%	65%	64%	36%	24%

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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Danville Community College
All Students
Four-year Completion Rates of Students Transferring to Danville 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	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All) (detail)	55%	58%	59%	58%	54%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	70%	60%	79%	79%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older (detail)	42%	48%	31%	53%	65%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs (detail)	59%	62%	68%	56%	48%
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant) (detail)	85%	93%		86%
New Transfer with Pell (detail)	51%	56%	53%	64%	47%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year (detail)				10%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward) (detail)	85%	93%		86%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer (detail)	19%	38%	47%	35%	34%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits (detail)	52%	75%	62%	76%	58%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA) (detail)
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer (detail)	81%	65%	79%	61%	72%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer (detail)	82%	65%	80%	65%	73%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer (detail)
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer (detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical) (detail)	53%	60%	39%	75%	50%

Notes:

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