Student Right-to-Know
Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates
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 Minneapolis College.
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 Minneapolis College students who started at the college in the Fall 2022. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree at the college.
The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from the college within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from the college, 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 Minneapolis College. The 460 first-time, full-time students in the study were 7 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in Fall 2022.
What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Minneapolis College students and how do they compare to rates for other colleges?
- The graduation rate for Minneapolis College was 21 percent.
- The transfer-out rate for Minneapolis College was 28 percent.
- The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate was 49 percent.
The national average combined rate for similar colleges was 51 percent.
Why don’t more Minneapolis College students graduate or transfer in three years?
- Since Minneapolis Community College has an "open door" mission, many new students need to take developmental courses to improve reading, writing, or math skills before taking other college courses;
- 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 Rate
Totals for Minneapolis College (Total Cohort):
- Graduation Rate: 21%
- Transfer Out Rate: 28%
- Combined Rate: 49%
Minneapolis College Race Ethnicity Graduation & Transfer Rates:
Race Ethnicity | Graduation Rate | Transfer Rate | Combined Rate -
- American Indian or Alaska Native | * | * | *
- Asian | 38% | 31% | 69%
- Black or African American | 12% | 37% | 49%
- Hispanic of any race | 27% | 19% | 46%
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | * | * | *
- Two or more races | 13% | 32% | 45%
- U.S. Nonresident | 25 | 25 | 50
- Unknown race and ethnicity | * | * | *
- White | 33% | 21% | 54%
*Suppressed to protect student privacy.
Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.
Gender Graduation and Transfer Rates
Gender | Graduation Rate | Transfer Rate | Combined Rate -
- Female | 22% | 30% | 51%
- Male | 21% | 26% | 47%
Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up 100 percent.
Financial Aid Graduation & Transfer Rates
Financial Aid | Graduation Rate | Transfer Rate | Combined Rate -
- Pell Grant Recipient | 18% | 28% | 4+%
- Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans | 28% | 28% | 55%
- Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell | 24% | 29% | 52%
Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up 100 percent.