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 Northwest Technical College – Bemidji.

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 Northwest Technical College – Bemidji students who started at the college in the Fall 2022. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree at the college. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from the college within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from the college, 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 Northwest Technical College – Bemidji. The 77 first-time, full-time students in the study were 10 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in Fall 2022.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Northwest Technical College – Bemidji students and how do they compare to rates for other colleges

• The graduation rate for Northwest Technical College – Bemidji was 43.
• The transfer-out rate for Northwest Technical College – Bemidji was 10.
• The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate was 53.
  • The national average combined rate for similar colleges was 51 percent.

Why don’t more Northwest Technical College – Bemidji 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 and Transfer-out Rates

Northwest Technical College – Bemidji	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Total Cohort	43%	10%	53%

Race Ethnicity	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
American Indian or Alaska Native	*	*	*
Asian	*	*	*
Black or African American	*	*	*
Hispanic of any race	*	*	*
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*
Two or more races	*	*	*
U.S. Nonresident	*	*	*
Unknown race and ethnicity	*	*	*
White	50%	10%	60%

Gender	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Female	39%	17%	57%
Male	44%	7%	52%

Financial Aid	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Pell Grant Recipient	*	*	*
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans	45%	11%	57%
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell	*	*	*

* Suppressed to protect student privacy.

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