Growing Number of Young People Leaving California to Attend College
“number has nearly quadrupled since 2002 and now represents 15% of the state’s college-bound high school graduates”
This is not surprising, is it? Millions of people are fleeing California every year now for a variety of reasons.
Campus Reform reports:
California sees record exodus of college-bound students
California’s public higher education system is the largest in the nation and home to globally ranked universities, but that hasn’t stopped a growing exodus of college-bound students.
In 2022, California experienced a net loss of nearly 24,000 students who chose to attend college in other states, according to data from the Public Policy Institute of California. That number has nearly quadrupled since 2002 and now represents 15% of the state’s college-bound high school graduates.
Most of these students are not going to more prestigious institutions.
Instead they’re enrolling in schools with lower admission standards and weaker academic outcomes, often at a higher cost. Public universities in Arizona and Oregon are among the top destinations.
Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, for example, are far less selective than University of California campuses but draw thousands of Californians. Oregon’s flagship university costs over five times more than the average CSU, but still sees strong enrollment from California.
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Because of living expenses, it can be cheaper to go out of state and pay that tuition (or get a scholarship) than to pay the exorbitant prices of that state.
I would say “don’t Californicate my universities” but it’s way too late.
Like UCal-Boulder.
There is an agreement between the western states to offer discounted tuition at public universities called WUE.
https://www.wiche.edu/tuition-savings/wue/
If academically weaker students are going elsewhere, isn’t this a W for CSUs? IF you’re a CSU, don’t you want the best and the brightest?
And for the receiving schools? (Probably more for them.)
It could be because the California schools (k- graduate school) education sucks the big one. And they want to be educated when they are done.
The uc’s “selectivity” discriminate against Asian and White students.
UC’s seem to be coasting on their reputation.
Ca Community colleges also have issues. A foreign student I heard was extremely disappointed by the education he saw at a community college. And a community college math teacher is frustrated by all the bs they need to put up with. Making a remote lesson plan due to fear of ice by a student. Being forced to develop lessons in Spanish due to a students request. It has added to their workload a lot.
And cal states seem to have forgot their purpose. Cal poly Pomona built a huge amount of housing, same with csuf.