Undergraduate Graduation and Transfer-out Rate

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 university must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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 State Mankato students who started at the university in the fall of 2018. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree at the university. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from Minnesota State Mankato within six years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from Minnesota State Mankato, but instead transferred to another college or university within six years.

What do I need to know about these rates?

These rates do not report on all students at Minnesota State Mankato. The 2,365 first-time, full-time students in the study were 19 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in fall of 2018.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Minnesota State University, Mankato students and how do they compare to rates for other universities?

  • The graduation rate for Minnesota State Mankato was 54 percent.
  • The transfer-out rate for Minnesota State Mankato was 29 percent.
  • The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate was 83 percent. The national average combined rate for similar universities was 73 percent.

Why don’t more Minnesota State University, Mankato students graduate or transfer in six years?

  • Some students take jobs before they graduate;
  • 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 six years to graduate;
  • Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons.

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates for Minnesota State University, Mankato

Minnesota State University, Mankato Graduation Rate Transfer-out Rate Combined Rate
Total Cohort 54% 29% 83%

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates By Race Ethnicity

Race Ethnicity Graduation Rate Transfer-out Rate Combined Rate
American Indian or Alaska Native * * *
Asian 39% 31% 71%
Black or African American 39% 38% 77%
Hispanic of any race 45% 30% 75%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander * * *
Two or more races 49% 33% 82%
U.S. Nonresident 52% 10% 62%
Unknown race and ethnicity * * *
White 57% 29% 85%

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates by Gender

Gender Graduation Rate Transfer-out Rate Combined Rate
Female 57% 30% 87%
Male 50% 26% 76%

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates by Financial Aid

Financial Aid Graduation Rate Transfer-out Rate Combined Rate
Pell Grant Recipient 47% 31% 78%
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans 58% 27% 84%
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell 54% 30% 84%

* Suppressed to protect student privacy.

Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.