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CUNY program suggests ways data can help transfer students

February 2, 2022

Nationally, 43% of credits are lost when students transfer between colleges because the institutions they’re entering don’t accept them, according to one study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. To help ensure CUNY students can use the credits they earned, the ACT project started by creating a daily data archive covering students transferring between the system’s participating institutions. That enabled analysis of whether transferred courses counted toward students’ degrees.

ACT is partnered with seven CUNY campuses — Lehman College, Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College, Brooklyn College, Guttman Community College, Queens College and Queensborough Community College. The project identified all students who are direct transfers from participating community colleges to four-year degree programs.

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