Student Transfer in Professional Pathways Project (STP3)
A comprehensive study of student transfer between California’s community colleges and public and private universities in career-oriented disciplines.
California projects considerable shortages in multiple occupations requiring a bachelor’s degree including engineering, nursing, accounting, teaching and criminal justice. With nearly 75% of our students starting their higher education in community colleges, promoting transfer between community colleges and four-year universities in professional majors offers one strategy for addressing the state’s pressing workforce needs.
Student Transfer in Professional Pathways Project (STP3) aims to provide actionable research that can support initiatives focused on improving transfer outcomes in professional pathways, including information on (1) how transfer students travel through the state’s community colleges and universities—both public and private—to achieve a professional degree, (2) factors that impact their journey and (3) ways to facilitate and increase their access to and success in these majors.
Engineering Transfer
Discover how 4,200 transfer students utilized the community college system in their journey toward an engineering baccalaureate and learn what factors pre- and post-transfer students view as transfer facilitators and barriers.
Research Brief | PowerPoint Presentation | Effective Practices | Student Profiles
Nursing Transfer
Learn more about how 2,800 students used the community college system to prepare for transfer to a BSN program and what challenges and supports impacted their experience along the way.
Accounting Transfer
Find out about specific issues effecting students’ movement through the community college system toward an accounting baccalaureate and how 2,100 transfer students leveraged community colleges before achieving this degree.
About STP3
Learn more about this project and the background information supporting and directing this study.
Eva Schiorring, Project Director
