Nearly one out of five students who enrolled for the first time at a four-year college in 2003-4 were transfer students, according to a report issued today by the U.S. Education Department’s statistical arm, the National Center for Education Statistics.
The report, “Descriptive Summary of 2003-04 Beginning Postsecondary Students: Three Years Later,” covers a range of characteristics of those students from the year they first enrolled until 2006. As a result of that short, three-year window, the report does not contain data on their graduation rates or other evidence of their educational outcome. The report also notes that about one-fourth of the students earned college credit while in high school. —Andrew Mytelka
