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 Minnesota West Community and Technical 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 Minnesota West students who started at the college in the fall of 2020. 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 Minnesota West within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from Minnesota West, 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 Minnesota West. The 268 first-time, full-time students in the study were 8 percent of all students enrolled at Minnesota West in fall of 2020.
What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Minnesota West
Community and Technical College students and how do they compare to rates
for other colleges?
- The graduation rate for Minnesota West was 47 percent.
- The transfer-out rate for Minnesota West was 14 percent.
- The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate for Minnesota West was 61 percent. The national average combined rate for similar colleges was 48 percent.
Why don’t more Minnesota West Community and Technical College students graduate or transfer in three years?
- Since Minnesota West has an “open door” mission, many new students need to take “developmental” courses to improve their reading, writing or math skills before taking other college courses
- 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
- Some students take jobs before they graduate
- Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesMinnesota West Community and Technical College
Graduation Rate
Transfer-out Rate
Combined Rate
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesTotal Cohort
47%
14%
61%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesRace Ethnicity
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesAmerican Indian or Alaska Native
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*
*
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesAsian
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*
*
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesBlack or African American
18%
36%
55%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesHispanic of any race
29%
9%
38%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesNative Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
*
*
*
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesU.S. Nonresident
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*
*
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesTwo or more races
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*
*
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesUnknown race and ethnicity
*
*
*
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesWhite
55%
13%
68%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesGender
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesFemale
40%
9%
49%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesMale
50%
17%
67%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesFinancial Aid
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesPell Grant Recipient
41%
19%
60%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesReceived neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans
52%
7%
59%
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Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out RatesReceived Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell
52%
17%
69%
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| Minnesota West Community and Technical College | Graduation Rate | Transfer-out Rate | Combined Rate |
| Total Cohort | 47% | 14% | 61% |
| Race Ethnicity | |||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | * | * | * |
| Asian | * | * | * |
| Black or African American | 18% | 36% | 55% |
| Hispanic of any race | 29% | 9% | 38% |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | * | * | * |
| U.S. Nonresident | * | * | * |
| Two or more races | * | * | * |
| Unknown race and ethnicity | * | * | * |
| White | 55% | 13% | 68% |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 40% | 9% | 49% |
| Male | 50% | 17% | 67% |
| Financial Aid | |||
| Pell Grant Recipient | 41% | 19% | 60% |
| Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans | 52% | 7% | 59% |
| Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell | 52% | 17% | 69% |
* Suppressed to protect student privacy.
Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.