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They Need Help: Transfer Students from Four-Year to Four-Year Institutions
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 33, Number 2, Winter 2010
- pp. 207-238
- 10.1353/rhe.0.0131
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This study examines the bachelor's degree attainment among students who first matriculate in four-year institutions but who then transfer to other four-year institutions. It constitutes a contribution to the research that has primarily studied transferring students who start at two-year colleges. This study uses Heckman's two-step model to correct the sample selection bias. The major finding of this study is that transfer students, especially those with broken enrollment, have a much lower probability of bachelor's degree attainment than students with unbroken enrollment. Possible policies to improve the efficiency of four-to-four transfer are also discussed.