About DegreeMapper

DegreeMapper is an independent, free guide to community-college transfer pathways in the United States. We catalog every accredited public two-year college in the country, document the articulation agreements and program-specific transfer routes that connect those colleges to four-year universities, and translate the resulting tangle of system websites, registrar PDFs, and state-statute language into something a high school senior, a working parent, or a returning adult learner can actually use.

The site exists because the path from a community college to a bachelor's degree is, for most American students, the most financially rational way to earn a four-year credential — but the information needed to navigate that path is fragmented across more than a thousand institutional websites, fifty different state higher-education agencies, and a small library of advising PDFs that most students never see. The cost of getting it wrong is enormous: surveys consistently find that roughly forty percent of the credits transfer students earn at the two-year level fail to count at the receiving university, the equivalent of paying for nearly a year of college twice.

What we publish

We maintain three core layers of content. State pages list every accredited community college in the state, summarize the state's transfer system, and link to the institutions. Institution pages aggregate cost, enrollment, transfer-rate, and program data for each college. Program pages walk through the typical two-year curriculum, prerequisites, and four-year destinations for the most popular transfer-oriented majors. Cross-cutting guides — the articulation agreement guide, the transfer terminology glossary, the FAQ — fill in the conceptual gaps.

Where the data comes from

Our institution list is drawn from the U.S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) by way of public Wikipedia consolidations of the same federal records. Cost and outcome statistics are anchored to published IPEDS state averages and state community college system disclosures. We update the underlying dataset on a regular cadence and document the sources transparently in the project README.

What we don't do

We are not affiliated with any college, university system, or government agency. We do not sell leads, broker tuition deposits, or accept paid placement on institutional listings. The advertising you see on the site is served through standard programmatic channels and does not influence which colleges are listed, how they are described, or how they rank within state and program pages.

Verify before you enroll

This site is a planning aid, not an enrollment system. Tuition figures, transfer rates, and articulation details change every academic year. Before you commit to a college or a transfer plan, verify the specifics with the community college's admissions office and the receiving university's registrar. The articulation guide on this site explains exactly what to ask for and where to find it.