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In Ontario and across Canada, student mobility has been a vital part of the academic relationship between colleges and universities. Within Ontario, Seneca College and York University have had a longstanding informal partnership for over 40 years and is considered a leader in pathways. More recently, the York Seneca Partnership (YSP) was created to support bidirectional student mobility between York University and Seneca College. The current study, through a mixed methods approach, measured the student experience of those transferring within this partnership.

The four primary research questions were:
1) How did Seneca and York students gain information about transfer options, advising services, transition supports, financial aid and transfer credits?
2) How effective was this information in supporting their decision-making, application process and registration?
3) What improvements to registration processes and student services were most likely to have a positive impact on the transfer student experience? How did students experience transfer?
4) How did sociodemographic characteristics, academic performance and engagement influence satisfaction with the transfer experience, and the decision to transfer? How did these characteristics influence academic performance and adjustment post-transfer?