Metric Definition Dictionary
620C (2,3,4,6): Cohort Students Who Transferred to a Four-Year Postsecondary Institution (with denominator used for SEP)
Among students in the cohort who earned 12 or more units at any time and at any college and who exited the community college system in the selected year, the number of cohort students who enrolled in any four-year postsecondary institution in the subsequent year or 3 years after for 2 year cohort, 4 years after for 3 year cohort, 5 years after for 4 year cohort and 7 years after for 6 year cohort
Value Type
Percentage and unduplicated count of students
Data Source(s)
Chancellor's Office Management Information System
National Student Clearing House
National Student Clearing House
Information displayed will continue to be updated for this metric as students are found to meet the criteria in the metric definition. Since the timeframe for data collection to construct this metric within this cohort view is still open, the data displayed for these metrics will continue to be updated.
Since this transfer metric is included in the 2022 Student Equity Plan (SEP), it has retained the metric 235Cx as the denominator which includes only first-time cohort students who exited the CA community college system and who earned 12 or more units at any time and at any college up to and including the year prior to transfer. Therefore, values will be exactly the same as 650Cx where the denominator is 122C first-time cohort students and the exiting and 12+ units earned requirements have been moved up to the value calculation per Chancellor's Office decision.
This metric is aligned to the original SCFF definition. However, it will not align to the 2021-22 SCFF definition where the 12 or more units have to be earned in the district in the selected year prior to transfer
Only students with valid social security numbers can be tracked
All colleges where a student is enrolled in the selected year prior to transfer will receive credit for that transfer
If a student shows up as a transfer student in two different transfer categories (i.e., CSU or UC and out of state) then that student is counted in both categories
COMIS:
Student Enrollment File
National Student Clearinghouse
CSU/UC Cohort Match:
Segment
tfr_in_inst_type
235Cx All first-time cohort students who earned 12+ units and who exited the CA community college system who met the following criteria:
Enrolled in a CSU, UC or any private or public in-state or out-of-state four-year institution
WHERE [(segment IS IN (CSU, UC, ISP, OOS)
AND tfr_in_inst_type = 4 in the transfer bucket)
AND at any time up to and including the end of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th year following the first term of entry in the cohort with preceding summer term enrollment treated like fall term enrollment
WHERE GI03 is 3,4,5,7 years after first term of General Admit credit enrollment for 2,3,4,6 year cohort timeframes
620C2 is any time from the first term of General Admit credit enrollment to 3 years later WHERE YY5 is same as YY7 and YY6 is same as YY8
620C3 is any time from the first term of General Admit credit enrollment to 4 years later WHERE YY5 is same as YY7 and YY6 is same as YY8
620C4 is any time from the first term of General Admit credit enrollment to 5 years later WHERE YY5 is same as YY7 and YY6 is same as YY8
620C6 is any time from the first term of General Admit credit enrollment to 7 years later WHERE YY5 is same as YY7 and YY6 is same as YY8]
AND count students at any college where enrolled as a 122C student in the selected year with no enrollment anywhere in the CC system in the following year and who completed 12 or more units at any time in the CC system
235Cx All first-time cohort students who earned 12+ units and who exited the CA community college system