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According to data accumulated by USNews and World Report, schools in Texas, Florida, and California werepopular destinations for transfer students in 2010. In fact, 14 out of the 15colleges enrolling the most transfer students were located in warmer climates.Evidently, these schools had capacity to accept and enroll astonishing largenumbers of transfers.

There are many reasons students choose to move schools. Often money issues areinvolved. Or sometimes it’s a question of academics or a desire to be closer tohome. And community college students make up a huge percentage of studentsmoving from one institution to another.

Even the Commander-in-Chief transferred during his college career.

Based on data provided through the CDS, Arizona State University enrolled 6,158transfer students and ranked number one among the nonprofit institutionsproviding transfer data.  And threeschools in the California State University system each drew more than 3,500transfers and ranked three, seven, and thirteen respectively.
Also among the toptransfer-friendly institutions were UMUC (3894), George Mason University(2452), Old Dominion University (2298), Virginia Commonwealth University(2007), Towson University (1971), and the University of Maryland College Park(1899).

A quick review of local colleges and universities suggests a much more limitedability to accommodate transfer students. According to CommonData Set information, far fewer transfers were to be found at Johns Hopkins (37) and the University of Richmond (48). George Washington accepted 27 percent of itstransfer applicants and enrolled 310 students, while Georgetown accepted 23 percent andenrolled 230 and

The University of Virginia accepted 40percent of those applying to transfer and enrolled 653, at the same time the College of William & Mary accepted 43 percentand enrolled 202.

Among the local colleges admitting the highest percent of transfer applicantswere James Madison University at 50 percent as well as the University of Mary Washington, ChristopherNewport University, and American University—allat 67 percent which is only slightly above the previous national average citedby USNWR of 61.9 percent.

The following is the USNWRlist of 10 schools enrolling the most transfer students:

1.  Arizona State University (6158)
2. University of Central Florida (5896)
3. Cal State Northridge (4477)
4.  Florida International University (4527)
5.  University of Texas—Arlington (4315)
6. University of Houston (4171)
7. Cal State Fullerton and Texas A&M—Commerce(4165)
8. UMUC (3894)
9. University of North Texas (3891)
10. SanFrancisco State University (3760)
11. TexasState University—San Marcos (3611)
12. CalState Sacramento (3556)
13. FloridaAtlantic University (3425)
14. NorthwestFlorida State College (3272)
15. Universityof South Florida (3242)

Note that the numberscited are from the 2010-11 CDS currently used by USNWR.  For more recent information, you may want toresearch 2011-12 CDS data posted on individual websites.