<p>…for close friends you can say I went to blah blah for two years and transferred to blah, blah. If they are going to be close friends then when it comes up in conversation you can explain that you transferred for financial reasons and not that you didn’t like or were struggling at the first college. But really you can just say the college you graduated from in casual conversation. On your resume you can list both schools with the accurate years. The reality is you are wanting to illuminate something that might be easier just not to get into or start people thinking about in my opinion. Honestly it’s more important that you graduated than where you got into right out of high school. So many people don’t finish their degree.</p>