Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates

Student Right-To-Know is a federal law that requires all colleges and universities to disclose certain information to students. This handout provides the information that a university must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at ��ϳԹ��.

What is a graduation rate and what is a transfer-out rate?

Federal regulations specify how to calculate the graduation and transfer rates. The rates come from a study of Metropolitan State students who started at the university in the fall of 2013. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree at the university. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from ��ϳԹ�� within six years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from Metropolitan State, but instead transferred to another college or university within six years.

What do I need to know about these rates?

These rates do not report on all students at ��ϳԹ��. The 64 first-time, full-time students in the study were 1 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled at Metropolitan State in fall of 2013.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for ��ϳԹ�� students and how do they compare to rates for other universities?

The graduation rate for Metropolitan State was 34 percent.
The transfer-out rate for Metropolitan State was 41 percent.
The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate for Metropolitan State was 75 percent. The national average combined rate for similar universities was 75 percent.

Why don’t more ��ϳԹ�� students graduate or transfer in six years?

Some students take jobs before they graduate;
Students who switch from full-time to part-time enrollment or “stop out” for one or more semesters are more likely to take more than six years to graduate;
Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons.

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates

	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Total Cohort	34%	41%	75%
Race / Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	*	*	*
Asian	27%	39%	67%
Black or African American	*	*	*
Hispanic of any race	*	*	*
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander	*	*	*
Nonresident Alien	*	*	*
Two or more races	*	*	*
Unknown race and ethnicity	*	*	*
White	*	*	*
Gender
Female	33%	54%	88%
Male	35%	33%	68%
Financial Aid
Pell Grant Recipient	24%	54%	78%
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans	*	*	*
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell	*	*	*

* Suppressed to protect student privacy.

Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.

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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates

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