Student Right-to-Know
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 St. Cloud State University.
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 St. Cloud State students who started at the university in the fall of 2017. 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 St. Cloud State within six years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from St. Cloud State, 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 St. Cloud State University. The 1,456 first-time, full-time students in the study were 11 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in fall of 2017.
What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for St. Cloud State University students and how do they compare to rates for other universities?
- The graduation rate for St. Cloud State was 47 percent.
- The transfer-out rate for St. Cloud State was 31 percent.
- The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate was 78 percent. The national average combined rate for similar universities was 74 percent.
Why don’t more St. Cloud State University 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.
Data & Additional Information
Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates
Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates
| St. Cloud State University | Graduation Rate | Transfer-out Rate | Combined Rate |
| Total Cohort | 44% | 36% | 81% |
| Race Ethnicity | |||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | * | * | * |
| Asian | 31% | 41% | 73% |
| Black or African American | 29% | 40% | 69% |
| Hispanic of any race | 32% | 45% | 77% |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | * | * | * |
| Nonresident Alien | 69% | 17% | 86% |
| Two or more races | 24% | 44% | 67% |
| Unknown race and ethnicity | * | * | * |
| White | 46% | 37% | 83% |
| Gender | |||
| Female | 47% | 38% | 85% |
| Male | 42% | 34% | 76% |
| Financial Aid | |||
| Pell Grant Recipient | 34% | 39% | 74% |
| Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans | 55% | 30% | 84% |
| Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell | 40% | 45% | 85% |
* Suppressed to protect student privacy.
Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.
Program Level Achievement Data
Undergraduate Program Level Achievement
Definitions
Retention Rate: Percentage of Baccalaureate degree-seeking undergraduates from the previous fall who are again enrolled in the current fall.
Graduation Rate: Percentage of students being awarded a Baccalaureate degree in 6 years out of the cohort term.
Data
|
Fall 2021 |
|
|
Program Level |
Retention Rate |
|
Baccalaureate |
68% |
|
Fall 2016 |
|
|
Program Level |
6 Year Graduation Rate |
|
Baccalaureate |
46% |
Graduate Program Level Achievement
Definitions
Retention Rate: Percentage of Masters or Doctoral degree-seeking graduates from the previous fall who are again enrolled in the current fall.
Graduation Rate (Masters): Percentage of students being awarded a Masters degree in 3 years out of the cohort term.
Graduation Rate (Doctoral): Percentage of students being awarded a Doctoral degree in 6 years out of the cohort term.
Data
|
Fall 2021 |
|
|
Program Level |
Retention Rate |
|
Masters |
76% |
|
Doctoral |
91% |
|
Fall 2019 |
|
|
Program Level |
3 Year Graduation Rate |
|
Masters |
73% |
|
Fall 2016 |
|
|
Program Level |
6 Year Graduation Rate |
|
Doctoral |
54% |