Roughly four in ten community-college entrants nationwide report a goal of eventually earning a bachelor's degree, but the share who actually move from a two-year institution to a four-year program varies dramatically by institution and by state. The College Scorecard reports a transfer rate for most two-year colleges: the share of full-time first-time degree-seeking students who transferred to another postsecondary institution within 150% of the normal time to program completion. The state-by-state guides below rank each community college in the state by that figure, highest first, so you can quickly identify which campuses send the largest share of their students on to additional postsecondary work.
Transfer rate alone is a directional signal, not a definitive one. It does not distinguish between transfers to a four-year university (the typical "stepping stone" outcome) and transfers to another two-year college, and it does not measure whether the receiving institution accepted credits on a course-for-course basis. A high transfer rate combined with strong articulation agreements with public four-year institutions in the same state is the configuration that tends to produce the lowest total cost of a bachelor's degree. A high transfer rate without articulation agreements can still mean substantial credit loss at the receiving institution.
If you are weighing community colleges with transfer in mind, pair the rankings below with the per-state cost guide and confirm with each admissions office that the credits you plan to take will be accepted by the four-year institutions you are targeting. Statewide transfer guarantees and reverse-transfer programs vary by state and are described in each per-state transfer-rate page where applicable.