Launched by nonprofit ITHAKA in early 2025, Transfer Explorer is a national credit mobility website with a goal of making information about transfer open, accurate, and easily accessible. Transfer Explorer contains catalog, course equivalency, credit for prior learning, and program requirement data from a growing network of schools in Washington, South Carolina, Connecticut, and New York. Unique among similar services, the site shows how credits earned elsewhere transfer and apply toward degree programs at the multiple destination colleges and universities featured on the site. Automated data feeds from institution source systems provide up-to-date information on transfer and allow institutions to enhance transfer equivalencies rules using their existing systems, and not a secondary data load process.

This session will explore how colleges and universities in Washington have collaborated on the design and launch of Transfer Explorer and how this supportive credit mobility technology aligns with state and institution strategies to boost student completion rates. Washington State University, led by the Everett campus, participated in the initial pilot for Transfer Explorer supported by the Washington Student Achievement Council, who provided state leadership for the project. Leaders from both organizations will discuss successes and challenges from the project and share best practices for implementing a credit mobility technology. A demo of Transfer Explorer will be shared during the session. Participants will be engaged in an interactive discussion about their credit mobility technology needs, successes, challenges, and strategies for choosing the right technology to meet the needs of their communities.

The session will take place in Baltimore, MD at Next: The 2025 Complete College America Annual Convening.