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Student Right-to-Know Graduation & Transfer-Out Rates

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 college must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at Hennepin Tech.

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 Hennepin Tech students who started at the college in the fall of 2020. The study includes all first-time students who were enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree, diploma or certificate at the college. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from Hennepin Tech within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from Hennepin Tech, but instead transferred to another college or university within three years

What do I need to know about these rates?

These rates do not report on all students at Hennepin Tech. The 226 first-time, full-time students in the study were 6 percent of all students enrolled at Hennepin Tech in fall of 2020.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Hennepin Tech students and how do they compare to rates for other colleges?

  • The graduation rate for Hennepin Tech was 44 percent.
  • The transfer-out rate for Hennepin Tech was 12 percent.
  • The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate for Hennepin Tech was 56 percent. The national average combined rate for similar colleges was 48 percent.

Why don’t more Hennepin Tech students graduate or transfer in three 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 three years to graduate;
  • Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons.

Disaggregated Student Right-To-Know Graduation & Transfer-Out Rates

Total Hennepin Tech

Graduation Rate Transfer-out Rate Combined Rate
Total Cohort 44% 12% 56%

Race/Ethnicity

Graduation Rate Transfer-Out Rate Combined Rate
Race Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native * * *
Asian * * *
Black or African American 21% 21% 42%
Hispanic of any race 71% 14% 86%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander * * *
Nonresident Alien * * *
Two or more races * * *
Unknown race and ethnicity * * *
White 46% 10% 56%

Gender

Graduation Rate Transfer-Out Rate Combined Rate
Female 38% 26% 64%
Male 46% 9% 54%

Financial Aid

Graduation Rate Transfer-Out Rate Combined Rate
Pell Grant Recipient 48% 16% 65%
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans 40% 9% 50%
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell * * *

* Suppressed to protect student privacy.

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