Of the 11,770 new full-time freshman matriculating at Maryland community colleges in fall 1998, 22.9% transferred to a Maryland public four-year college, 8.2% graduated and did not transfer, and 10.5% were still enrolled in a Maryland community college four years later. The combined four-year transfer and community college graduation rate of 31.1% for the 1998 cohort was the lowest rate since 1978. In this same cohort, women had a transfer rate of 32%, while men had a transfer rate of 29%. This gap, however, was the narrowest since the 1990 cohort. In contrast to the performance of all students, the four-year graduation and transfer rate for African Americans in the 1998 cohort rose by nearly one point in the last year, to 18.5%. Although the graduation rate of African Americans remains well below that of whites and Asians, the gap between African Americans and whites was the narrowest (18.4%) since the 1994 cohort. This report presents statewide totals for retention, graduation, and transfer for all students, as well as presenting data by gender, ethnicity, campus, and cohort year for the years from 1990 to 2000. (Contains 39 tables and 2 figures.) (NB)