Dive Brief:

• California’s public colleges and universities have made progress in making it easier for students to transfer into four-year programs from community college, according to a new report by the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office.
• Despite that progress, many community college students who graduate with an associate degree wrongly believe that they are guaranteed admission to the California State University system.
• The report charts progress toward meeting requirements set out in 2010 state legislation to make it easier to transfer community college credits to the state’s four-year programs.

Dive Insight:

Community college credit transfers and the maze of differing requirements at individual four-year schools is a problem not confined to California, and other states are sure to be follow its experience with the transfer reform. The report concludes that it’s still too early to evaluate student incomes as a result of the transfer credit reform, but that California State University schools have improved their acceptance rate of associate degrees for transfer.