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 university must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at Minnesota State University, Mankato. 

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 university must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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 Minnesota State Mankato students who started at the university in the fall of 2005. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree at the university. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from Minnesota State Mankato within six years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from Minnesota State Mankato, but instead transferred to another college or university within six years.

What do I need to know about these rates?
These rates do not report on all students at Minnesota State Mankato. The 2,232 first-time, full-time students in the study were 18 percent of all undergraduate students enrolled in fall of 2005.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Minnesota State University, Mankato students and how do they compare to rates for other universities?

• The graduation rate for Minnesota State Mankato was 50 percent.
• The transfer-out rate for Minnesota State Mankato was 35 percent.
• The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate was 85 percent. The national average combined rate for similar universities was 68 percent.
  

Why don't more Minnesota State University, Mankato students graduate or transfer in six 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 six years to graduate;
• Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons.

 

Disaggregated Student Right-To-Know Graduation and Transfer-Out Rates
Minnesota State University, Mankato	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Total Cohort	50%	35%	85%
Race Ethnicity
American Indian or Alaska Native	*	*	*
Asian	43%	35%	78%
Black or African American	33%	39%	72%
Hispanic of any race	32%	43%	76%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*
White	51%	34%	86%
Two or more races	35%	55%	90%
Nonresident Alien	56%	19%	74%
Unknown race and ethnicity	*	*	*
Gender
Female	52%	35%	87%
Male	48%	34%	82%
Financial Aid
Pell Grant Recipient	41%	36%	77%
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell	49%	36%	84%
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans	53%	34%	87%

* Suppressed to protect student privacy.