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Only in the bizzaro athletics-centered life of a scholarship athlete is it called a graduate-transfer, because the student athlete is changing schools that they are playing for.  In regular life, it is simply called "going to grad school", and generally speaking, except for students pursuing a co-terminal master's degree, Stanford and many other schools generally discourage their own undergaduates (or, at least used to) from going to graduate school at the same institution they completed their undergraduate degree.  Something about cross-pollination and intellectual diversity, even though it's typically the same few schools that are "cross pollinating".  While there may be some scholar-athletes who actually transfer during graduate school, in most cases "graduate transfer" means a transfer to a graduate school.  Unfortunately, the track record of graduate transfers is not great, and the last I checked, most did not get their graduate degrees:

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2014/11/6/tr...sfers.aspx

After two years, only one-quarter of the graduate transfers in football and one-third in men’s basketball had earned a graduate degree. Completion percentages were higher outside of those two sports, especially among women.  Nearly 40% of the football players in this sample departed by the end of their first graduate term. Non-completers typically withdrew at the point when athletics eligibility was exhausted.

This kind of makes a mockery of the graduate transfer rule, but I'm also not sure how to fix it (other than to hold schools accountable for students who don't graduate from their graduate school).  You don't want to punish students who manage to get their undergraduate degrees before they exhaust their eligibility, but again, the fact that the majority of grad transfers are doing it to be able to claim to be students while they compete and then drop their graduate program the moment they exhaust eligibility is a horrible indictment of where we are.

An MD is generally four years (180 units), unless paired with a second degree (MD/PhD most commonly, in which case it is 6+ years, though MD/MBAs, MD/JDs, and, especially MD/MPH's definitely exist).

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Only in the bizzaro athletics-centered life of a scholarship athlete is it called a graduate-transfer, because the student athlete is changing schools that they are playing for.  In regular life, it is simply called "going to grad school", and generally speaking, except for students pursuing a co-terminal master's degree, Stanford and many other schools generally discourage their own undergaduates (or, at least used to) from going to graduate school at the same institution they completed their undergraduate degree.  Something about cross-pollination and intellectual diversity, even though it's typically the same few schools that are "cross pollinating".  While there may be some scholar-athletes who actually transfer during graduate school, in most cases "graduate transfer" means a transfer to a graduate school.  Unfortunately, the track record of graduate transfers is not great, and the last I checked, most did not get their graduate degrees:

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2014/11/6/tr...sfers.aspx

After two years, only one-quarter of the graduate transfers in football and one-third in men’s basketball had earned a graduate degree. Completion percentages were higher outside of those two sports, especially among women.  Nearly 40% of the football players in this sample departed by the end of their first graduate term. Non-completers typically withdrew at the point when athletics eligibility was exhausted.

This kind of makes a mockery of the graduate transfer rule, but I'm also not sure how to fix it (other than to hold schools accountable for students who don't graduate from their graduate school).  You don't want to punish students who manage to get their undergraduate degrees before they exhaust their eligibility, but again, the fact that the majority of grad transfers are doing it to be able to claim to be students while they compete and then drop their graduate program the moment they exhaust eligibility is a horrible indictment of where we are.

An MD is generally four years (180 units), unless paired with a second degree (MD/PhD most commonly, in which case it is 6+ years, though MD/MBAs, MD/JDs, and, especially MD/MPH's definitely exist).

BC