Maryland is committed to student success in higher education.  Currently, Maryland is working towards a 55% completion goal by 2025, meaning that at 55% of Maryland’s adults age 25-64 will hold at least an associate’s degree by the year 2025.  Additionally, the College and Career Readiness and College Completion Act of 2013 mandate several initiatives to support students in completing their degrees.  These initiatives include:

• Developing a statewide transfer agreement and reverse transfer agreement, thus, streamlining the transfer process between community colleges and four-year institutions
• Creating a campaign to identify and encourage near-completers to re-enroll and finish their degree
• Requiring remedial or developmental coursework to be a co-requisite of credit-bearing work or a pre-requisite that is taken the semester before enrolling in credit-bearing work
• Standardizing a baccalaureate degree to 120 credits and an associate’s degree to 60 credits (with specific exceptions)
• Requiring students in danger of falling behind in meeting graduation and/or programmatic benchmarks to meet with an academic advisor
• Creating limitations on charging tuition for dually enrolled students and explicating tuition agreements between local school systems and institutions