Four-year College Transfer from

Virginia Peninsula 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 from Virginia Peninsula 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	703	580	667	619	563	507
b. Men - Total	297	248	291	231	243	199
c. Women - Total	406	332	376	387	320	308
d. Majority Students - Total	397	334	356	364	329	275
e. Majority Students - Men	182	151	186	163	146	124
f. Majority Students - Women	215	183	170	200	183	151
g. Students of Color - Total	306	246	311	255	234	232
h. Students of Color - Men	115	97	105	68	97	75
i. Students of Color - Women	191	149	206	187	137	157

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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All Students
Students Transferring from Virginia Peninsula 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)	63	52	62	48	45	46
George Mason University (details)	13	15	15	14	14	18
James Madison University (details)	21	17	15	18	21	17
Longwood University (details)	9	6	7	5	2	0
Norfolk State University (details)	37	36	27	22	22	20
Old Dominion University (details)	268	200	255	247	232	192
Radford University (details)	15	8	14	8	8	5
University of Mary Washington (details)	3	5	4	5	0	1
University of Virginia (details)	9	14	11	14	18	16
University of Virginia's College at Wise (details)	2	0	0	0	0	0
Virginia Commonwealth University (details)	88	83	81	86	76	60
Virginia Military Institute (details)	0	1	1	2	0	0
Virginia State University (details)	7	6	7	5	5	3
Virginia Tech (details)	24	28	41	25	24	23
William & Mary (details)	26	24	28	32	40	28
Total Public Four-Year Institutions (details)	585	495	568	531	507	429
Private Institutions
George Washington University (details)	1	3	2	2	2	1
Averett University (details)	0	0	0	0	0	3
Bluefield University (details)	2	2	4	0	1	0
Bridgewater College (details)	1	0	0	0	1	0
Eastern Mennonite University (details)	1	1	0	1	0	0
Ferrum College (details)	2	0	0	1	0	0
Hampden-Sydney College (details)	0	0	0	1	1	0
Hampton University (details)	12	11	10	9	1	8
Hollins University (details)	0	0	0	1	0	0
Liberty University (details)	59	41	42	46	26	37
Mary Baldwin University (details)	3	4	0	0	0	1
Marymount University (details)	1	0	2	0	0	1
Randolph-Macon College (details)	1	1	1	1	0	0
Regent University (details)	24	15	32	18	18	20
Roanoke College (details)	2	0	0	0	1	1
Shenandoah University (details)	1	1	0	2	0	0
Southern Virginia University (details)	0	1	0	0	0	0
Sweet Briar College (details)	0	0	0	0	0	0
University of Lynchburg (details)	0	0	1	1	1	1
University of Richmond (details)	1	0	0	1	1	1
Virginia Union University (details)	0	2	0	0	0	1
Virginia Wesleyan University (details)	3	2	5	2	3	3
Total Private, Four-Year Institutions (details)	118	85	99	88	56	78

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 Virginia Peninsula 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	305	235	280	214	223	204
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs	34	50	64	48	44	34
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older	256	196	225	203	149	152
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs	413	334	377	366	370	321
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year	30	27	21	29	23	18
Student/Family Income at Entry
New Transfer, Family Income $0 - $49,999	291	219	256	216	215	182
New Transfer, Family Income $50,000 - $99,999	125	110	115	74	94	86
New Transfer, Family Income $100,000 - $149,999	72	66	65	72	52	55
New Transfer, Family Income $150,000 and Greater	36	36	43	41	47	43
New Transfer, Family Income Not Reported	179	149	188	216	155	141
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)	703	580	667	619	563	507
Transfer-specific Characteristics
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer	161	120	146	123	113	128
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits	99	85	112	86	78	73
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)	19	11	13	15	14	9
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer	342	305	324	310	304	258
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer	324	280	300	286	284	227
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer	12	20	15	16	15	23
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer	6	5	9	8	5	8
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)	66	48	61	73	49	40

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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All Students
Students Transferring to Virginia Peninsula 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)	94%	87%	94%	88%	83%	69%
New Transfer with Pell(detail)	79%	76%	80%	76%	81%	54%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	92%	91%	88%	84%	73%	66%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older(detail)	79%	69%	78%	68%	67%	52%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs(detail)	86%	81%	86%	86%	84%	63%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year(detail)	46%	20%	30%	24%	14%	9%
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All)(detail)	84%	77%	83%	79%	78%	60%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward)(detail)	94%	87%	92%	88%	83%	71%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer(detail)	80%	65%	75%	64%	66%	48%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits(detail)	87%	79%	89%	81%	83%	54%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA)(detail)		89%	100%	69%	80%	71%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer(detail)	91%	85%	89%	90%	86%	67%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer(detail)	92%	85%	90%	93%	87%	68%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer(detail)	75%	67%	80%	73%	94%	60%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer(detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical)(detail)	82%	64%	67%	66%	66%	51%

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 Virginia Peninsula 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
Financial Aid Programs at Entry
New Transfer, Full-time with CTG or CTG Plus (Transfer Grant) (detail)	94%	88%	79%	94%	91%
New Transfer with Pell (detail)	53%	61%	55%	60%	60%
Student Demographics
New Transfers, Age 17 to 19 yrs (detail)	56%	65%	62%	68%	75%
New Transfers, Age 25 yrs and Older (detail)	49%	56%	50%	53%	54%
New Transfers, Age 20 to 24 yrs (detail)	70%	70%	62%	77%	68%
Student Effort and Progress
Students earning 06 credits or fewer in First Year (detail)	12%	11%	3%	4%	5%
Summary Totals
New Transfer (All) (detail)	62%	65%	58%	68%	64%
Transfer-specific Characteristics
New Transfer with CTG or CTG PLUS (2010-11 forward) (detail)	94%	88%	79%	92%	91%
CC Transfer Students with 15 CC credits or Fewer (detail)	34%	53%	39%	46%	47%
CC Transfer Students with between 16 and 30 CC credits (detail)	58%	65%	57%	68%	69%
CC Transfer Students with 31 CC credits or Greater (No AA) (detail)	65%		53%	73%	46%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer (detail)	81%	81%	70%	80%	76%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2 or fewer years prior to Transfer (detail)	84%	84%	72%	81%	78%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 2.01 to 5 years prior to Transfer (detail)	52%	60%	42%	75%	73%
AA/AS Awarded Prior to Transfer, 5 or more years prior to Transfer (detail)
AAS Awarded Prior to Transfer (Occ/Technical) (detail)	54%	48%	48%	62%	46%

Notes:

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