Cheryl Turrise
Assistant Director Transfer Admission
312.567.5885
cturrise@iit.edu
IIT UG - Transfer Admission Snapshot:
· Shrinking Applicant Pool: CC Enrollment down by almost 200,000 since 2010
ICCB Annual Report - 2017: https://www.iccb.org/data/?page_id=18
· Illinois Articulation Agreement Gen-Ed Core Requirements (IAI):
The challenge here is that most community college students complete 3 lower level Humanities and 3 lower level Soc/Bhv Sciences before they start considering where they will transfer.
iTransfer Portal: https://itransfer.org/aboutiai/
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What is IAI? The Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI) is a statewide transfer agreement, which is transferable among more than 100 participating colleges and universities in Illinois. IAI works best for students who know they are going to transfer but are undecided on the college or university that will grant their baccalaureate degree. General Education Package All
colleges and universities participating in IAI agree to accept a
"package" of IAI general education courses in lieu of their own
comparable lower-division general education requirements. Keep in mind, the
IAI general education transfers as a package. Any course-to-course transfer
credit is not guaranteed. You should work with your institutions to see
exactly how your courses will transfer beyond the IAI package. Want to see how your courses map to the general education package (GECC)? View the Course Worksheet
The Illinois Associates Degrees - A.A. and A.S. Institutions in Illinois grant two types of transferable Associates degrees. The Illinois Articulation Initiative general education package is part of both. The Associates of Arts degree, or A.A., has a full general education package (GECC) fully incorporated. When you complete an A.A. degree and transfer, your general education requirements should be waived at the next 4-year IAI participating institution you choose to attend. The Associates of Science degree, or A.S., is specifically designed for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, areas of study. This degree has a modified general education package which allows students in these demanding fields the opportunity to remain on track with their cohorts at the 4-year institutions and complete a couple of general education courses after they transfer to their institution of choice. Under the A.S. degree model, students will take one additional math course and one science course, which will delay two GECC courses in the Humanities & Fine Arts and Social & Behavioral Sciences categories. The GECC package remains intact; However, a student will complete the package upon transfer to a university.
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· Illinois Tech Transfer Admits:
Historically, transfer students typically account for about 1/3 of the incoming class each year at Illinois Tech. For example, this FA18 we saw 617 Freshman, and 226 Transfer students, or 36% of the total. However, we are continuing to experience a downward trend and low numbers of IL community college students transferring out to any 4-year institution. Of those students that do transfer, the majority inform us that they are most likely to select a school that accepts the highest number of their transfer credits and will leave them with the shortest time to degree completion.
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· Summary of current IIT transfer recruitment challenges:
o Diminishing prospective transfer applicant pool overall.
o Pervasive community college practices including holding onto their students longer while pressuring them to complete an Associate’s degree and denying financial aid (FAFSA) if they are “only taking courses to transfer.”
o IAI gen-ed core is not compatible with IIT gen-ed core.
o Since most Illinois Tech transfer students come from Illinois, these students are all commonly advised by the CC counselors/advisors to follow IAI and take all three lower level Humanities and all 3 lower level Soc/Bhv Sciences as early as their first semester.
o IIT is one of the few universities that does not accept the Associate’s degree as a package waving any additional Gen-Eds.
o Increasingly, we are losing transfer students to our competitors since they will accept the entire 18 hours of lower division Humanities and Soc/Bhv Sciences without requiring additional upper division Gen-Eds, thus reducing the student timeline to degree completion.