Four-year College Transfer from

Brightpoint 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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Brightpoint Community College

Students Transferring from Brightpoint 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	680	712	652	740	675	706
b. Men - Total	281	286	259	323	281	296
c. Women - Total	399	426	393	417	394	410
d. Majority Students - Total	434	461	425	464	426	444
e. Majority Students - Men	190	189	176	210	176	198
f. Majority Students - Women	244	272	249	254	250	246
g. Students of Color - Total	246	251	227	276	249	262
h. Students of Color - Men	91	97	83	113	105	98
i. Students of Color - Women	155	154	144	163	144	164

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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Brightpoint Community College
All Students
Students Transferring from Brightpoint 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	3	7	8	9	5
George Mason University (details)	10	17	11	12	11	17
James Madison University (details)	27	33	34	41	38	34
Longwood University (details)	32	27	24	37	26	26
Norfolk State University (details)	4	4	5	3	2	4
Old Dominion University (details)	81	80	62	72	51	83
Radford University (details)	5	15	8	12	9	21
University of Mary Washington (details)	4	2	0	5	5	1
University of Virginia (details)	19	19	19	22	26	21
University of Virginia's College at Wise (details)	0	2	0	2	0	0
Virginia Commonwealth University (details)	294	316	282	357	326	300
Virginia Military Institute (details)	2	1	1	1	0	0
Virginia State University (details)	51	49	50	44	38	55
Virginia Tech (details)	37	32	24	25	33	27
William & Mary (details)	1	6	3	1	6	3
Total Public Four-Year Institutions (details)	568	606	530	642	580	597
Private Institutions
George Washington University (details)	0	3	0	0	3	2
Averett University (details)	1	0	1	1	0	3
Bluefield University (details)	4	2	2	4	0	1
Bridgewater College (details)	2	1	1	0	2	0
Eastern Mennonite University (details)	0	2	1	0	2	0
Emory & Henry College (details)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ferrum College (details)	0	0	0	1	0	1
Hampden-Sydney College (details)	0	0	0	1	1	1
Hampton University (details)	2	0	5	3	0	2
Liberty University (details)	63	70	72	66	56	65
Mary Baldwin University (details)	3	1	0	1	4	1
Marymount University (details)	1	0	0	0	1	1
Randolph College (details)	0	0	1	0	1	0
Randolph-Macon College (details)	1	3	10	4	7	5
Regent University (details)	5	7	9	7	3	8
Roanoke College (details)	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shenandoah University (details)	1	0	1	0	1	2
Southern Virginia University (details)	1	2	0	0	0	0
Sweet Briar College (details)	1	0	1	0	1	1
University of Lynchburg (details)	0	0	0	0	2	1
University of Richmond (details)	21	8	13	10	6	9
Virginia Union University (details)	1	1	5	0	4	6
Virginia Wesleyan University (details)	0	3	0	0	1	1
Total Private, Four-Year Institutions (details)	112	106	122	98	95	109

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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Brightpoint Community College
All Students
Students Transferring to Brightpoint 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	297	270	249	272	247	264
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs	48	71	50	70	67	67
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older	202	222	174	188	180	206
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs	430	419	428	482	428	433
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year	24	32	25	37	43	29
Student/Family Income at Entry
New Transfer, Family Income $0 - $49,999	273	289	235	258	235	265
New Transfer, Family Income $50,000 - $99,999	134	118	122	145	113	98
New Transfer, Family Income $100,000 - $149,999	74	81	81	90	76	88
New Transfer, Family Income $150,000 and Greater	37	46	61	57	60	77
New Transfer, Family Income Not Reported	162	178	153	190	191	178
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)	680	712	652	740	675	706
Transfer-specific Characteristics
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer	151	151	127	144	239	275
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits	105	90	94	180	281	290
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)	9	12	14	49	82	107
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer	352	394	332	304	56	30
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer	326	355	311	254	29	1
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer	21	31	18	43	24	22
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer	5	8	3	7	3	7
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)	69	70	89	63	28	13

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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Brightpoint Community College
All Students
Students Transferring to Brightpoint 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)	88%	85%	85%	93%	87%	64%
New Transfer with Pell(detail)	76%	75%	73%	78%	78%	54%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	82%	73%	83%	80%	76%	63%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older(detail)	73%	74%	73%	76%	70%	52%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs(detail)	78%	81%	79%	82%	77%	59%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year(detail)	14%	12%	22%	36%	22%	7%
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)(detail)	77%	79%	77%	81%	75%	57%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward)(detail)	88%	85%	85%	93%	87%	63%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer(detail)	75%	72%	69%	75%	69%	53%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits(detail)	81%	71%	79%	74%	77%	59%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)(detail)			83%	79%	92%	70%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer(detail)	77%	84%	80%	87%	74%	55%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer(detail)	78%	83%	80%	89%	78%	66%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer(detail)	60%	95%	77%	56%	58%	46%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer(detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)(detail)	79%	77%	74%	71%	63%	57%

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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Brightpoint Community College
All Students
Four-year Completion Rates of Students Transferring to Brightpoint 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)	96%	87%	90%	72%	37%
New Transfer with Pell (detail)	73%	76%	78%	52%	21%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	85%	82%	94%	61%	15%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older (detail)	76%	73%	82%	47%	23%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs (detail)	82%	80%	76%	58%	22%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year (detail)	16%	12%	24%	2%	0%
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All) (detail)	80%	79%	79%	56%	22%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward) (detail)	96%	87%	90%	71%	37%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer (detail)	66%	60%	74%	43%	17%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits (detail)	69%	79%	86%	64%	21%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA) (detail)	108%	100%	92%	71%	37%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer (detail)	87%	86%	74%	45%	23%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer (detail)	87%	89%	76%	41%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer (detail)	81%	44%	60%	50%	18%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer (detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical) (detail)	84%	74%	79%	64%	15%

Notes:

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