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ANNUAL TRANSFER ACTIVITY REPORT

2013-2014

An Analysis of Non-cohort Transfer Data Provided by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education

Wendy Lin James Buie

August, 2015 IR# 15167

Table of Contents

Executive Summary 3 

Introduction 4 

Methodology 4 

Findings 5 

Statewide Transfer Trends 6 

Transfer Trends by Region 7 

Transfer Trends by Transfer-to Institutions 7 

Transfer Destinations 10 

Transfer Savings 11 

Ivy Tech Credentials Earned by Out-bound Transfers 12 

Implications/Recommendations 14 

References 15 

Appendix 16 

Executive Summary

This report examines current and historical Ivy Tech regional and statewide transfer trends as reported by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE) Focusing on all students who transferred Ivy Tech credits to an Indiana public four-year institution in 2013-14:

 A total of 13,058 students transferred Ivy Tech credits to an Indiana public four‐year institution, resulting in a total of 245,362.8 Ivy Tech credit hours transferred This makes an average of 18.8 credit hours transferred per student

 Transfer students saved a total of $37,726,536 in 2013-14 This amounts to an average per student savings of $2,889.15 and is based on a weighted average transfer-to institution credit hour cost of $269.24

 Students tend to transfer to institutions within close proximity to the Ivy Tech campus where they earned credits

 Consistent with prior year, IUPUI, IU-Bloomington, Purdue University-West Lafayette were the top receiving institutions in terms of both headcounts and credit hours transferred

 Trend data from 2001-02 to 2013-14 indicates that transfer trends have been on a steady incline though differ vastly from region to region

o Lafayette, Central Indiana and Bloomington had the largest growth in credits transferred

o The Bloomington, Southeast and Terre Haute regions had the largest growth in students transferring

 Though a majority of students (e.g., 85.3 percent) transferred without completing at Ivy Tech, the number of students transferring with an Ivy Tech credential increased by 14.6 percent compared

to the prior year In particular, the number of transfer students who earned an associate degree at Ivy Tech rose by 13.1 percent

 Business, nursing, elementary education and psychology are the most popular programs pursued

at the transfer-to institution

 Among students transferring with an Ivy Tech credential, the majority earned it in nursing,

general studies or business administration

ANNUAL TRANSFER ACTIVITY REPORT

2013-2014 Introduction

Increasingly more students transfer credits from community colleges to four-year institutions in order to acquire a bachelor’s degree As college tuition continues to rise, tuition savings may be an important drive for students to take courses at a community college, as its cost per credit hour is lower than tuition

at many four-year institutions

Over the last decade, the number of Ivy Tech students transferring credits to other institutions has risen dramatically, increasing 681 percent from 2001-02 to 2013-14 Though current state performance

funding metrics do not recognize the role of transfer in the success of Ivy Tech students, this report demonstrates the crucial role Ivy Tech plays in a student’s academic career, as well as the important contributions Ivy Tech make to the Indiana higher education system

The purpose of the Annual Transfer Activity Report is to identify:

 Current and historic transfer trends statewide and by Ivy Tech region;

 Major transfer-to institutions by the number of Ivy Tech credits transferred;

 Using the above statistics, an estimation of tuition savings by Ivy Tech transfer students;

 Number and types of Ivy credentials earned by students prior to transferring

Identifying transfer trends throughout the years will help tell a big part of Ivy Tech’s transfer story Additionally, understanding differences in transfer trends between regions will be crucial to informed decision making

Methodology

This study includes all students who transferred credits to an Indiana four-year public institution as a degree-seeking from July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014 These students could have enrolled at Ivy Tech at any point in the past and include degree-seeking, guest, dual credit and high school students

The source data for this report was compiled and provided by the Indiana Commission for Higher

Education (ICHE) Data consisted of student enrollment information, credit hours transferred and Ivy Tech degree information as reported to ICHE by other four-year public institutions The dataset allows Ivy Tech to determine the number of Ivy Tech students transferring credits to other Indiana four-year public institutions in the defined study period However, because the source data is de-identified, it is not possible to link the data back to Ivy Tech student data to conduct additional analysis

It is important to note this report differs from the IPEDS transfer report (available on the Office of

Institutional Research website) in a number of important ways:

1 Data in this report comes from ICHE and only includes students and credits transferred from Ivy Tech to a public 4-year institution in Indiana

2 Transfer is defined as transferring of Ivy Tech credits to another institution in the defined study period In some cases, the timeframe in which a student transferred course credits may occur later than when the student actually transferred For example, a student may have enrolled at

another institution for the first time during the 2011-12 year but not had the transfer credits applied to his/her transcript until the 2013-14 year Therefore, the number of students

transferring credits in one year may not be an accurate representation of how many students actually transferred in the same year

3 Students in this report may have been enrolled at Ivy Tech as degree-seeking, guest, dual credit or high school students

4 It is possible that within a given fiscal year, Ivy Tech students transferred credits from more than one Ivy Tech campuses or have attended more than one four-year institutions Students may be counted more than once in this report to help better understand transfer origins and destinations

Findings

A total of 13,058 students transferred credits to an Indiana public four‐year institution in year 2013-14, resulting in a total of 245,362.8 Ivy Tech credit hours transferred This makes an average of 18.8 credit hours transferred per student Among these students, 4,140 were classified by the transfer-to institution as

a transfer student Compared to last year, the number of students transferring credits rose by 17.6 percent, and the total number of credit hours transferred increased by 8.4 percent Conversely, the average

number of credit hours transferred declined by 7.8 percent while the number of students classified as transfer students by the transfer-to institution dropped by 1.0 percent

Percent Change 2001‐02 vs

2013-14

Percent Change 2012‐13 vs 2013-14

Total students classified as

transfer students by receiving

Table 1 Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public Four-year Institutions in 2013-14: Key Transfer Metrics

Statewide Transfer Trends

Figure 1 Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public Four-year Institutions: Statewide Transfer Trends, 2001-02 to 2013-14

Shown in figure 1, Ivy Tech’s statewide transfer trends have been on a steady incline since 2001 During this time the number of students transferring credits rose 681.0 percent, while the number of credit hours transferred increased by 943.4 percent A slight dip in both numbers was observed in 2011-12, which recovered in the most recent year

10,957 10,563 11,104

174,051

243,827 225,037 226,333

245,363

0 50,000 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000

Ivy Tech Statewide Transfer Trends: AY 2001 to 2014

# Student and Credits Transferred

# Students Transferring Credits

# Ivy Tech Credit Hours Transferred

Transfer Trends by Region

Figure 2 illustrates transfer trends represented by the number of students transferred and number of credits transferred by each of the fourteen Ivy Tech regions over time Clearly, transfer occurred at different rates between regions, as each region showed significantly different progressions over the past decade Lafayette, Central Indiana and Bloomington stand out with their rapid growth in the number of students transferred credits However, unlike Central Indiana, the other two regions showed a larger gap between transfer headcounts and number of Ivy Tech credits transferred This could be due to a couple of reasons: 1) students who make up the increase in headcount could be guest students who took only a few credits at Ivy Tech; 2) not all credits taken were transferred to the four-year institution, resulting in lost of credits Unfortunately, since the data source is de-identified, it is not possible to link back to Ivy Tech data to further clarify these assumptions

Clearly, some regions are more transfer-oriented than the others, a finding that is consistent in our past transfer reports This could be driven by a number of factors Some of them include the size of the Ivy Tech campus, the nature of the student body and demands for transfer students in the partnering four-year institution Studying other factors that may contribute to differences seen in transfer trends between regions will help tell a big part of Ivy Tech’s transfer story

Transfer Trends by Transfer-to Institutions

Figure 3 shows transfer trends represented by the number of students transferred and number of credits transferred by transfer-to institutions Transfer trends for most receiving institutions, such as IU-

Bloomington, Purdue-West Lafayette, and IUPUI mirror that of their largest contributing Ivy Tech campus, such as Bloomington, Lafayette and Cenral Indiana, respectively This is not surprising, as transfer numbers from those Ivy Tech campuses were likely driven by demands for transfer students from the partnering four-year institutions

Of note, both Vincennes University and Purdue University-Statewide Technology did not report data to ICHE until the recent years Thus data prior to 2010-11 is not available, making it difficult to study trend data for these two schools

Figure 2 Transfer Trends by Ivy Tech Region, 2001-02 to 2012-13 (see Table 8 and 9 in the Appendix for details)

Figure 3 Transfer Trends by Transfer-to Institution, 2001-02 to 2012-13 (see Table 4 and 5 in the Appendix for details)

Of note, Vincennes University and Purdue University-Statewide Technology have not begun reporting data to ICHE until the recent years Thus data prior to 2010-11 is not

available, making it difficult to study trend data for these two schools

addition, in most cases the largest contributing Ivy Tech campus is within close proximity to the receiving institution Ball State University is an exception in this case, with 38.2 percent of its transfer source coming from Central Indiana and the rest dispersed among other regions Similarly, because the Purdue University-Statewide Technology is a statewide program, the top contributing region only accounted for 22.8 percent of all Ivy Tech transfers to the program

3,357 2,422

Ball State University (Central Indiana 38.2%)

University of Southern Indiana (Southwest 62.4%)

IU-Southeast (Sellersburg 88.7%)

IPFW (Northeast 85.5%) Indiana State University (Terre Haute 56.8%)

Purdue-Calumet Campus (Northwest 73.8%)

IU-East (Richmond 51.6%) IU-Kokomo (Kokomo 63.3%) Purdue-North Central Campus (Northwest 87.5%)

IU-Northwest (Northwest 93.7%) IU-South Bend (Northcentral 98.1%)

Vincennes University (Central Indiana 19.9%)

Purdue-Statewide Technology (Lafayette 22.8%)

Number and Percent of StudentsTransfer Destinations

with the largest contributing Ivy Tech region and contributing % in brackets

Transfer Savings

The cost per credit hour at Ivy Tech was $115.17 for fall 2013, which is the lowest of all Indiana public institutions Multiplying the number of Ivy Tech credit hours transferred to each institution by the

respective dollar savings per credit hour, the 13,058 Ivy Tech transfer students saved a total of

$37,726,536 in 2013-14 This amounts to an average per student savings of $2,889.15 and is based on a weighted average transfer-to institution credit hour cost of $269.24

Figure 5 Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public Four-year Institutions in 2013-14: Estimated Tuition Savings

by Transfer-to Institution

Transfer-to Institution Transferred # Students Credits Total

Transferred

Ivy Tech Saving Per Credit Hour

Estimated Total Tuition Saved

Ball State University 987 19,764 $184.17 $3,639,925

Indiana State University 488 9,947 $154.77 $1,539,537

Indiana University-Bloomington 3,357 27,889 $219.27 $6,115,128

Indiana University-East 378 14,457 $101.37 $1,465,407

Indiana University-Kokomo 368 10,445 $102.87 $1,074,391

Indiana University-Northwest 270 5,422 $105.70 $573,105 Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort

Ivy Tech Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public 4-year Institutions in 2013-14

Estimated Tuition Savings by Transfer-to Institution

# Students Transferring Credits

# Ivy Tech Credits Transferred Estimated Total Tuition Saved

Transfer-to Institution Transferred # Students Credits Total

Transferred

Ivy Tech Saving Per Credit Hour

Estimated Total Tuition Saved

Indiana University-Southeast 529 8,719 $104.03 $907,067

Purdue University-Calumet Campus 424 12,145 $101.30 $1,230,289

Purdue University-North Central Campus 335 8,099 $119.67 $969,180

Purdue University-Statewide Technology 101 1,746 $110.48 $192,904

Purdue University-West Lafayette 1,842 17,622 $214.83 $3,785,793

University of Southern Indiana 627 13,011 $95.67 $1,244,719

Table 2 Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public Four-year Institutions in 2013-14: Estimated Tuition Savings

* Weighted Average Cost per Credit Hour

Ivy Tech Credentials Earned by Out-bound Transfers

Figure 6 Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public Four-year Institutions in 2013-14: Transferring and Ivy Tech Credentials Earned

Transfer and Ivy Tech Credentials Earned # Students % Students

Transferring and Ivy Tech Credentials Earned

AY 2013-2014

Ivy Tech Credentials Earned

Transferred without Ivy Tech Credential

Transferred with Ivy Tech Credential

credential before transferring The figure above shows the types of Ivy Tech credentials earned by transfer students Among these, a majority have obtained an associate degree A closer look at associate degrees earned indicated that nursing, business administration and general studies were the most popular majors

Figure 7 Students Transferring Credits to Indiana Public Four-year Institutions: Transferring and Ivy Tech Credentials Earned, 2001-02 to 2013-14

It is also worth noting that the number of students transferring with an Ivy Tech credential increased drastically compared to the prior year, as shown in figure above (see Table 12 in the Appendix for

details) The number of transfer students who earned an associate degree at Ivy Tech increased by 13.1 percent; whereas the number of students who earned any credential prior to transferring increased by 14.6 percent As Ivy Tech continues its partnership with four-year institutions to facilitate initiatives that encourage students to earn an associate degree before transferring, along with the recent implementation

of the Transfer General Education Core (TGEC) certificate, continuing growth in this area is likely to occur in the near future

143 233

376

512 607

650 803 913 1,098

1,567 1,210 1,546 1,748