Students who transfer to the state's public universities are more likely to have earned a degree before transferring

Source: Authors' calculations using MIS data. NOTES: Restricted to students who successfully completed at least 12 units as a non-special admit student in any college in the system and who were enrolled in the system in the year prior transferring to a four-year institution. Students are considered "transfer-ready" if they have completed at least 60 transfer-level units including transfer-level math and English with a GPA of at least 2.0. The figure displays data for students who transferred in academic year 2021–22. Our sample include 54,000 students who transferred to a California State University campus (or 58% of the total sample), 15,700 students who transferred to a University of California campus (17%), 8,400 to an in-state private institution or ISP (9%), and 14,500 to out-of-state institutions or OOS (16%). ADT stands for Associate Degree for transfer and AA/AS for associate degree. Please refer to Technical Appendix A for more details.