If community colleges are to build back enrollment after more than a decade of declines and address concerns about the value of a college education, they must ensure that their workforce and transfer programs are worth completing in that they prepare students to secure good jobs or transfer successfully.
This report and the accompanying online data tool from the Community College Research Center are designed to encourage community colleges individually and by state to examine data on what degrees and certificates they are awarding, which of those credentials are more likely to enable students to secure good jobs directly or transfer efficiently to a bachelor’s degree program in students’ major fields of interest, and whether certain demographic groups are underrepresented among graduates of programs that have strong post-completion value for employment and transfer or are overrepresented among lower value program graduates.