Sinclair Community College will host its annual transfer fair, open to all students seeking information about transferring colleges.
Manager of Career Services Matt Massie said 48 colleges have registered for the fair.
“Ohio is exceptionally rich with colleges and universities, so four-year transfer fairs brings a lot of them together in one place, and lets students start to explore and talk to those different institutions,” he said.
The transfer fair will give students the opportunity to talk to colleges face-to-face, which is an advantage for students, Massie said.
“It’s an opportunity to engage in a conversation with admission reps [or] recruiters from four-year institutions that may offer academic programs that align with their career goals,” he said. “They can get a sense of what that next step is.”
He added that the transfer fair may be especially beneficial for students within their last two terms of graduating, because it will give them a chance to engage with and explore what kind of colleges are out there.
“Many students come here with the intent to transfer on to pursue a bachelors degree or another credential, which is brilliant,” he said. “Oftentimes the more degrees that you can add, the more marketable you are to an employer, so adding that bachelors degree is a very good idea. For students who can do that while they’re in that study mode and are used to going to school, it’s a great way to continue that process.”
During last year’s transfer fair, several hundred students attended. This year they are hoping for more.
The transfer fair will be held on March 19, starting at 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the Library Loggia.
“It’s an opportunity to have face-to-face contact with a variety of different schools,” he said. “If a student were to go out and try to investigate just five or 10 of these institutions on their own … that would take hours and hours of their time. Here, it’s set up in a format where they can do all of that in just an hour or two. [They can also] talk to schools and learn about schools they had no idea were even options for them. So this is a way to make face-to-face contact, get questions answered and really start in the process of looking at where to transfer to.”