A Growing Number of Students From the North Going South for College
“number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022”
This is an interesting trend. These students are opting for warmer weather and more fun.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Sorry, Harvard. Everyone Wants to Go to College in the South Now.
A growing number of high-school seniors in the North are making an unexpected choice for college: They are heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama and other universities in the South.
Students say they are searching for the fun and school spirit emanating from the South on their social-media feeds. Their parents cite lower tuition and less debt, and warmer weather. College counselors also say many teens are eager to trade the political polarization ripping apart campuses in New England and New York for the sense of community epitomized by the South’s football Saturdays. Promising job prospects after graduation can sweeten the pot.
The number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest available Education Department data found.
At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, total freshmen from the Northeast jumped to nearly 600 in a class of about 6,800, up from around 50 in 2002. At the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, they increased from 11 to more than 200 in a class of about 4,500 in 2022. At the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 11% of students came from the Northeast in 2022, compared with less than 1% two decades prior.
This flow of students to Southern colleges promises to impact the region’s economy for years. About two-thirds of college graduates go on to work in the same state where they graduate, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and others. The transplants are well-educated, motivated young workers at the least expensive points in their careers.
For most of American history, many high-school seniors have aspired to go to college in the Northeast, home to the Ivy League. Southern academic stalwarts, such as Duke, Tulane, Emory and Vanderbilt, have long drawn their share of students from up North, but the recent uptick of students going to the South is fueled by attendance at public universities.
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Yep. There were many when I was an undergrad during the Dubya Years
If you take a year or two to reach upper intermediate Spanish during K-12 and during the year or two post-graduation from high school,
then you can attend university in Puerto Rico or Argentina , for example, and then by age 24 you’ll have saved money; you’ll have your your BA ; and you’ll have far better job prospect fete than your peers because you’ll be bilingual and bicultural.
It takes 5-6 years to complete a four-year bachelors degree for English-speaking Americans anyway. {{e.g., Shapiro, D., Dundar, A., Wakhungu, P.K., Yuan, X., Nathan, A, & Hwang, Y. (2016, September). Time to Degree: A National View of the Time Enrolled and Elapsed for Associate and Bachelor’s Degree Earners (Signature Report No. 11). Herndon, VA: National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.}
Maybe another reason they are heading south is that there are fewer nonsense courses and mandatory DIE courses in southern schools.
Yeah, they did that to Arizona colleges decades ago, which is one of the reasons we ended up deep purple.
This is indeed a real phenom. With Claremont McKenna being the sole first rate college out west scoring in the top 10 in freedom of speech/expression and no school in the East anywhere near the top for such, the South is the refuge of choice. While Austin and parts of NC are basically indoctrination centers, many other first rate schools offer STEM opportunities that are both less costly and much more structured than the Eastern and Western schools of CA, OR and WA. And some States like AZ , NV and NM simply do not have first rate colleges.
As for those Eastern schools academically…let us remember that Barbara Lee had degrees both from U of V and Yale. And she was too stupid to name the planets.
I think Jewish applicants need to consider applying to universities in the South, especially in FL and TX. They should encounter far less antisemitism than in northeastern universities.
It’s called Bribery. Southern schools are offering free tuition to top performing academic students.
Years ago, an experienced anesthesiologist in Montgomery County, Maryland., told me:
“A new doc who can speak Spanish will get hired ahead of anyone from Harvard Medical School. Every time.”
Wake up, folks. Think.