The number of students in the San Diego Community College District that transfer into four-year universities is steadily increasing. The transfers have not just been transitioning to average four-year universities, but renowned and respected schools as well.
Along with very distinguished schools such as UCLA and UC Berkeley, San Diego State University receives 30 percent of the students transferring from San Diego City, Mesa, or Miramar College. Along with SDSU, schools that also had high percentages of transfer students from the San Diego Community College District included National University, Cal State San Marcos, Point Loma Nazarene, Arizona State University, and the University of San Diego.
This past year there was a total of 4,212 students who transferred from the schools in the SDCCD. In the 2016-17 school year, there was only 3,893. A few years back, in the 2013-14 school year, there were only 3,358 transfer students. The district has continued to improve year after year, sending more young adults into four-year universities from than before.
Mesa College had the highest percentage of transfer students out of the three schools in the district, with 2,284 transfer students. City College and Miramar were both reasonably close, with City having 971 transferring and Miramar having 957.
Along with the number of transfer students increasing, the number of minority student transfers has also grown. With Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, and African American student transfer rates all increasing.
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