This report provides information on the retention, graduation, and transfer rates of first-time, full-time students at Maryland community colleges from 1999-2009. The report examines retention and graduation data for students two, three, and four years after matriculation into a community college. Retention, graduation, and transfer rates are presented for the state and disaggregated by race/ethnicity and gender. Additionally, data are presented for all students and for African-American students at each community college. The first section of the report provides an analysis of graduation and transfer rates within the four years following initial enrollment, including analysis by race/ethnicity and gender. This includes analysis of both statewide and individual institutional data. This section also examines trend data on retention, graduation, and transfer from the last ten years for which data are available (1997-2007). The second section discusses an alternative measure of progress developed by Maryland, the successful persister rate. This analysis separates students into one of three categories based upon their level of academic preparedness: (1) students requiring no remediation (college ready); (2) students requiring remediation who completed their assigned courses (developmental completers); and (3) students requiring remediation who failed to complete courses as assigned (developmental non-completers). Maryland's community colleges began measuring successful persister rates beginning with the 2000 cohort of students for 14 of the 16 institutions; data for all 16 community colleges are available beginning with the 2001 cohort of entering students. The third section of this report includes highlights of a survey of community college graduates. The Maryland Higher Education Commission conducts a triennial follow-up survey of associate degree graduates in collaboration with the community colleges. The most recent study was conducted in 2009 and includes those students who graduated during FY2008 (July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008). The survey includes questions about the community college graduates' experiences at the community college, perceptions of the quality of education received, post-graduation educational enrollments, and employment. The survey of 2010-11 graduates is currently underway, and the 2013 "Retention, Graduation, and Transfer" report will include analysis from this survey of FY 2011 graduates. [For the report from the previous year "Retention, Graduation and Transfer Rates at Maryland Community Colleges [2011]," see ED594065.]