Transfer Rates and Numbers

Transfer rates and transfer numbers should measure the number of community college students who transfer to four-year colleges. However, while our students transfer to many public and private 4-year colleges, until recently we have only had access to our transfers to CSU and UC. Therefore, our historical transfer rates include only our students who have transferred to CSU and UC, while the most recent rate includes transfers to other colleges. Below are these transfer rates for Chabot College and for all California Community Colleges. Following are the numbers of transfers to CSU and UC.


Transfer Rates to CSU/UC: 1990-95; to CSU/UC and others: 1997

Transfer rates express the percentage of community college students who transfer to four-year colleges. The transfer rate depends upon how the group of potential transfer students is defined - should all students at the community college be considered potential transfer students, even if they do not intend to transfer, or should we consider only those who declare or act like they intend to transfer, such as those who take more than one course? In their transfer rate study the Transfer Assembly, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) used the following definition of potential transfer students - first-time students who entered in a particular Fall term and earned 12 or more credits within four years. The transfer rate is definied as the percentage of this group who transferred to UC or CSU within four years.

For five years, Chabot College was among 73 California Community Colleges who were part of this Transfer Assembly. Recently, the state Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) was able to calculate this rate for transfers to UC, CSU, and to all other U.S. colleges. For Fall 1986 to 1991 furst-time students, Chabot's transfer rate to UC and CSU only was at or above the state average; for the Fall 1993 cohort, the transfer rate to UC, CSU plus all other colleges was much higher for Chabot - 38 percent compared to an average of about 29 percent for the other California community colleges in this study.

Transfer Rates to CSU/UC (and to other colleges in 1997) for Chabot College,
and all California Community Colleges (CCC's): 1990-97

Of first-time college students who entered Chabot College and all California Community Colleges (CCCs) in a given year and earned 12 or more college credits, the percentage who enrolled at CSU or UC within 4 years.

  Transfer Rate
Chabot All CCCs
Enter comm coll 1986/Enroll at CSU/UC by 1990 21.9% 22.0%
Enter comm coll 1987/Enroll at CSU/UC by 1991 21.1% 20.8%
Enter comm coll 1988/Enroll at CSU/UC by 1992 18.5% 19.0%
Enter comm coll 1990/Enroll at CSU/UC by 1994 22.6% 20.6%
Enter comm coll 1991/Enroll at CSU/UC by 1995 22.8% 21.3%
Enter comm coll 1993/Enroll at CSU/UC (+others) by 1997 38.3% 29.1%

SOURCE: CSCC Transfer Assembly 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997; CCC Chancelor's Office MIS Fall 1993 cohort

Number of transfers to CSU/UC from Chabot College, Las Positas College,
and all California Community Colleges (CCC's): Full academic years 1986-99
Academic
Year
Full year transfers
Chabot
Las Positas
All CCC's
CSU
UC
CSU
UC
CSU
UC
1986-87
858
116
*
*
43,666
6,754
1987-88
805
135
*
*
44,701
7,713
1988-89
893
118
*
*
45,402
8,145
1989-90
976
140
*
*
45,724
8,164
1990-91
966
159
*
*
46,678
10,032
1991-92
958
131
*
*
44,900
9,972
1992-93
809
124
*
2
40,980
9,993
1993-94
974
144
9
17
44,420
10,940
1994-95
1,058
161
121
33
46,912
10,929
1995-96
831
135
154
31
48,688
10,886
1996-97
747
117
204
34
48,349
10,492
1997-98
709
131
164
47
45,546
10,210
1998-99
623
111
176
56
44,989
10,161
1999-2000
654
N/A
231
N/A
47,744
N/A
SOURCE: California Postsecondary Education Commission Student Profiles, 1986-2000
*NOTE: During these years, Las Positas College students were included among Chabot students.