Student Right-To-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates (June 2022)

What is Student Right-To-Know?  

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 college must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at South Central College (SCC).

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 SCC students who started at the college in the fall of 2018. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree, diploma or certificate at the college. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from SCC within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from SCC, but instead transferred to another college or university within three years.

What do I need to know about these rates? 

These rates do not report on all students at SCC. The 375 first-time, full-time students in the study were 14 percent of all students enrolled at South Central in fall of 2018.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for South Central students and how do they compare to rates for other colleges?

  • The graduation rate for SCC was 30 percent.
  • The transfer-out rate for SCC was 15 percent.
  • The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate for SCC was 45 percent. The national average combined rate for similar colleges was 45 percent.

Why don’t more South Central students graduate or transfer in three 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 three years to graduate;
  • Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons.

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

South Central CollegeGraduation RateTransfer-Out RateCombined

Total Cohort

30%

15%

45%

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates by Race Ethnicity

South Central CollegeGraduation RateTransfer-Out RateCombined

Race Ethnicity

 

 

 

American Indian or Alaska Native

*

*

*

Asian

*

*

*

Black or African American

15%

30%

45%

Hispanic of any race

23%

13%

47%

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

*

*

*

Nonresident Alien

*

*

*

Two or more races

*

*

*

Unknown race and ethnicity

*

*

*

White

34%

13%

47%

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates by Gender

South Central CollegeGraduation RateTransfer-Out RateCombined

Gender

 

 

 

Female

22%

21%

43%

Male

36%

10%

47%

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates by Financial Aid Status

South Central CollegeGraduation RateTransfer-Out RateCombined

Financial Aid

 

 

 

Pell Grant Recipient

25%

16%

41%

Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans

35%

13%

48%

Received subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell

38%

17%

55%

*Suppressed to protect student privacy.
Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.