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 2019. 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 the university, 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 2,363 first-time, full-time students in the study were 18 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in Fall 2019.

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 University, Mankato was 56 percent.
• The transfer-out rate for Minnesota State University, Mankato was 28 percent.
• The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate was 84 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

Minnesota State University, Mankato	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Total Cohort	56%	28%	84%

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	53%	32%	85%
Black or African American	41%	40%	82%
Hispanic of any race	42%	34%	77%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*
Two or more races	48%	28%	76%
U.S. Nonresident	57%	10%	67%
Unknown race and ethnicity	*	*	*
White	58%	28%	86%

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

Gender	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Female	57%	31%	88%
Male	54%	25%	78%

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%	33%	80%
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans	62%	25%	87%
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell	52%	30%	82%

* Suppressed to protect student privacy.

 

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