COVID-19 Transfer, Mobility, and Progress: Update on Transfer Students

As the fifth in the series, this report is the first comprehensive annual reporting designed to assess the effects of the pandemic on student transfer during the entire academic year. The report focuses on the 2.1 million undergraduate students who transferred to a college other than their last enrolled institution between July 2020 and June 2021, a period reflecting the pandemic’s full-blown impact on postsecondary students and institutions. Key findings are shown in three areas — upward transfer pathways, persistence post-transfer, and the transfer trends at HBCUs and HSIs.