A college credit transfer system started in the keystone state two years ago is apparently paying real dividends. A new state report says that in 2009, credits transferred by students saved the state a whopping $35 million in so-called “credit transfer taxes” (the state’s costs for having students re-retake courses they have already taken, but which other colleges or universities do not give credit for).
Community college students were the big winners. About 13% more of them transferred to universities in the program than in the previous year, while a total of about 9% more credits were transferred in total. Pennsylvania’s program succeeded partly because the state created, with the help of an application developer, a tool that allows students to select courses they can transfer. Typically, courses taken in the first two years of college are those accepted for transfer.
More on the Pennsylvania program here.