Colleges That Draw the Most out-of-state Students?

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<p>I think I remember a thread from more than a year ago in which someone (collegehelp?) dug through IPEDS data to find out which colleges have the biggest draws of out-of-state students. I don’t know how I’d search up that thread, but I’d love to hear from anyone who knows how to find it here. </p>

<p>One other way to check which colleges are popular with a lot of out-of-state students is to compare state-by-state figures of where college entrance examination test scores are sent. The state reports for the SAT </p>

<p>[College-Bound</a> Seniors 2008](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/data-reports-research/sat/cb-seniors-2008]College-Bound”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board) </p>

<p>and the ACT </p>

<p>[ACT</a> National and State Scores for 2008: State Profile Reports](<a href=“http://www.act.org/news/data/08/statemenu.html]ACT”>http://www.act.org/news/data/08/statemenu.html) </p>

<p>show about a page of data for each state ranking which colleges received the most score reports from test-takers in that state. That’s a way to check which colleges are most popular to students in each state, and identify far-away colleges that have significant draws from other regions.</p>

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<p>DC schools are almost 100% out of state</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/318710-national-universities-state-out-state-foreign-freshman-enrollment.html?highlight=state[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/318710-national-universities-state-out-state-foreign-freshman-enrollment.html?highlight=state&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/376789-top-private-research-universities-who-wins-competition-students-each-state.html?highlight=state[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/376789-top-private-research-universities-who-wins-competition-students-each-state.html?highlight=state&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks, collegehelp; your second listed thread (with the “magnetism index”) was the thread I remembered.</p>

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<p>percent in-state for recent freshman class
source IPEDS</p>

<p>American University DC 1%
Georgetown University DC 1%
George Washington University DC 1%
Bennington College VT 2%
Dartmouth College NH 3%
Brown University RI 3%
Middlebury College VT 4%
Wesleyan University CT 5%
Yale University CT 6%
Principia College IL 6%
Reed College OR 7%
University of Notre Dame IN 7%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 8%
Colby College ME 8%
Oberlin College OH 8%
Washington University in St Louis MO 8%
Bates College ME 9%
Amherst College MA 10%
Bowdoin College ME 11%
Williams College MA 11%
Haverford College PA 11%
Connecticut College CT 12%
Grinnell College IA 13%
Swarthmore College PA 13%
Wellesley College MA 13%
Harvard University MA 13%
Duke University NC 13%
Johns Hopkins University MD 13%
Princeton University NJ 14%
Washington and Lee University VA 14%
Bryn Mawr College PA 15%
Trinity College CT 15%
Macalester College MN 15%
Vanderbilt University TN 16%
Smith College MA 16%
University of Pennsylvania PA 17%
University of Richmond VA 17%
Sarah Lawrence College NY 17%
Kenyon College OH 18%
Mount Holyoke College MA 18%
Wheaton College IL 19%
Beloit College WI 19%
Davidson College NC 19%
Boston University MA 19%
Bard College NY 20%
Carnegie Mellon University PA 20%
University of Chicago IL 20%
Spelman College GA 21%
Brandeis University MA 21%
Lehigh University PA 22%
Tufts University MA 22%
Tulane University of Louisiana LA 22%
Carleton College MN 22%
Sewanee: The University of the South TN 22%
Earlham College IN 23%
Wake Forest University NC 23%
Goucher College MD 23%
Dickinson College PA 24%
Lafayette College PA 24%
Northwestern University IL 24%
Muhlenberg College PA 25%
Vassar College NY 25%
Boston College MA 25%
Columbia University in the City of New York NY 25%
Bucknell University PA 25%
University of Puget Sound WA 26%
Rhodes College TN 26%
Colorado College CO 26%
Gettysburg College PA 26%
Franklin and Marshall College PA 27%
Emory University GA 27%
Furman University SC 28%
New York University NY 28%
California Institute of Technology CA 29%
Colgate University NY 29%
Brigham Young University UT 29%
Barnard College NY 30%
Skidmore College NY 31%
Cornell University NY 31%
Clark University MA 32%
Hamilton College NY 32%
Denison University OH 32%
Whitman College WA 33%
Pomona College CA 34%
Willamette University OR 34%
Wheaton College MA 34%
College of the Holy Cross MA 36%
Thomas Aquinas College CA 36%
University of Delaware DE 37%
The College of Wooster OH 37%
Lawrence University WI 38%
Millsaps College MS 38%
Yeshiva University NY 38%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY 38%
Scripps College CA 39%
Saint Louis University-Main Campus MO 40%
Syracuse University NY 41%
Marquette University WI 41%
Stanford University CA 41%
DePauw University IN 42%
St Lawrence University NY 42%
University of Miami FL 42%
Pepperdine University CA 43%
Sweet Briar College VA 43%
Claremont McKenna College CA 44%
Case Western Reserve University OH 45%
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ 45%
Knox College IL 45%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA 46%
University of Denver CO 46%
University of Rochester NY 46%
Hobart William Smith Colleges NY 46%
Rice University TX 46%
Southern Methodist University TX 47%
Pitzer College CA 47%
Occidental College CA 48%
Hollins University VA 48%
Fordham University NY 49%
Harvey Mudd College CA 49%
Ohio Wesleyan University OH 50%
Hendrix College AR 51%
Agnes Scott College GA 52%
Randolph-Macon College VA 54%
Virginia Military Institute VA 56%
St. Olaf College MN 57%
University of Iowa IA 57%
Wofford College SC 57%
Centre College KY 58%
Drew University NJ 58%
University of Colorado at Boulder CO 59%
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI 59%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus GA 60%
Auburn University Main Campus AL 60%
Ursinus College PA 60%
Indiana University-Bloomington IN 61%
Presbyterian College SC 61%
University of Southern California CA 61%
Allegheny College PA 62%
Wells College NY 63%
University of Virginia-Main Campus VA 64%
Miami University-Oxford OH 64%
Hanover College IN 64%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor MI 64%
Purdue University-Main Campus IN 64%
New College of Florida FL 65%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN 65%
Birmingham Southern College AL 66%
College of William and Mary VA 66%
Clemson University SC 67%
Juniata College PA 68%
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus PA 68%
Hope College MI 69%
University of Maryland-College Park MD 69%
University of Connecticut CT 69%
Kalamazoo College MI 70%
Wabash College IN 70%
Iowa State University IA 71%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA 72%
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus PA 75%
Union College KY 76%
Mills College CA 78%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus WA 79%
Saint Johns University MN 79%
St Mary’s College of Maryland MD 79%
University of Missouri-Columbia MO 80%
Baylor University TX 80%
Gustavus Adolphus College MN 80%
College of Saint Benedict MN 81%
SUNY at Binghamton NY 83%
University of Georgia GA 85%
Ohio State University-Main Campus OH 85%
Illinois Wesleyan University IL 85%
Michigan State University MI 85%
The University of Tennessee TN 86%
University of Florida FL 87%
Albion College MI 89%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL 89%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick NJ 90%
Augustana College IL 90%
University of California-Irvine CA 91%
University of California-Berkeley CA 91%
Austin College TX 91%
The University of Texas at Austin TX 91%
University of California-Los Angeles CA 92%
Southwestern University TX 94%
Texas A & M University TX 95%
University of California-San Diego CA 95%
University of California-Santa Barbara CA 95%
University of California-Santa Cruz CA 96%
University of California-Davis CA 96%
University of California-Riverside CA 99%</p>

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<p>lol the west coast seems to attract more in-state students</p>

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<p>Well Ohio State, the nation’s BIGGEST school by far, is also mostly in-state. Dont forget its also a financial situation. But to be fair, almost all colleges were primarily colloquial…recruiting from the local community. Indeed, many college’s derive their very name from the city or community where they were founded and only recently have they drawn nationally. Even Notre Dame was a local school at one time. </p>

<p>You also have to be fair as well with state size and the number of kids applying to college from that state. Many colleges are reaching out bigtime to out of state applicants, because it spreads their name around the country and they can draw a more competitive applicant pool. Call it clever marketing. </p>

<p>I also wonder how old that data is. IPEDS is often a year or two old in their data collection.</p>

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<p>I’ll say Ivy League schools draw many out of state students.</p>

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<p>Cornell Engineering is about 15% in-state, the Cornell endowed colleges are about 19% in-state overall, and the NYS statutory colleges at Cornell are a little over 50% in-state overall.</p>

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<p>That must be a slip of the keyboard for “parochial,” methinks.</p>

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<p>It’s simply because in state tuition costs are far cheaper</p>

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<p>^and also i think there’re more qualified applicants to choose from in the case of california. i don’t think you can say the same in the case of dartmouth & nh and brown & ri.</p>

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<p>Here is a more concise look at colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 50 National Universities and the USNWR Top 25 LACs</p>

<p>% of students who are Out-of-State , National University</p>

<p>98% , Georgetown
97% , Dartmouth
95% , Brown
93% , Yale
92% , Notre Dame
90% , MIT
90% , Wash U
85% , Duke
85% , Johns Hopkins
84% , Princeton
83% , Vanderbilt
81% , Harvard
81% , U Penn
78% , U Chicago
77% , Carnegie Mellon
76% , Lehigh
75% , Northwestern
75% , Tufts
75% , Wake Forest
75% , Brandeis
71% , Boston Coll
70% , Emory
68% , Tulane
65% , Caltech
64% , NYU
62% , Cornell
57% , Rensselaer
54% , Stanford
46% , Case Western
45% , Rice
44% , U Rochester
35% , USC
32% , U Michigan
32% , U Wisconsin
31% , W&M
29% , Georgia Tech
28% , U Virginia
24% , Penn State
17% , U North Carolina
13% , U Washington
10% , UC Berkeley
7% , U Illinois
5% , U Texas
4% , UCLA
4% , UC Santa Barbara
4% , U Florida
3% , UCSD
2% , UC Davis
2% , UC Irvine
na , Columbia
na , Yeshiva</p>

<p>% of students who are Out-of-State , LACs</p>

<p>96% , US Naval Acad
93% , Middlebury
92% , Wesleyan
92% , US Military Acad
91% , Oberlin
90% , Colby
89% , Bates
88% , Amherst
88% , Bowdoin
88% , Grinnell
87% , Swarthmore
87% , Haverford
86% , Williams
84% , W&L
83% , Wellesley
82% , Bryn Mawr
80% , Davidson
78% , Macalester
77% , Smith
74% , Carleton
74% , Vassar
67% , Pomona
66% , Hamilton
56% , Claremont McK
50% , Harvey Mudd
29% , Colgate</p>

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<p>There’s no way that number can be right for Colgate. I think it’s 29% in state…</p>

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<p>American, GWU, and Georgetown - they are ALL out-of-state.</p>

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<p>Maryland and Virginia and Delaware should probably be considered in-state for the DC schools. Massachusetts and Connecticut are really in-state for Brown.</p>

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<p>^^ Arcadia’s right, I think. Princeton Review shows Colgate 71% out-of-state.</p>

<p>“In-state v. out-of-state” means something very different for publics than it does for privates, insofar as the former are supported in part by legislative appropriations and chartered (or in some cases, created directly by the state constitution) for the purpose of educating residents of the state. So to some extent we’re comparing apples and oranges here. But it’s noteworthy that among the publics there’s a big difference between schools like Michigan, Wisconsin, William & Mary, Georgia Tech, and Virginia on the one hand–all around 30% OOS; and the UCs, UIUC, U Texas, and U Florida at the other end of the scale, all with a tiny fraction of OOS students, in many cases under legislative mandates or university admissions policies that favor in-state and disfavor OOS applicants. </p>

<p>There’s also a surprisingly large variance among the privates. I’d never have guessed that Stanford is nearly half in-state, or that Rice is over half in-state. </p>

<p>The size of the state population has something to do with it—DC, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine all have tiny populations. But since in-state-v.-out-of-state doesn’t mean as much for privates as for publics, I think a more instructive measure might be how much of its student body a school draws from outside its own immediate region. It’s not so surprising that only 2% of Georgetown students come from the District (2007 population 588,292); but there may be many more from DC’s Maryland and Virginia suburbs, who don’t show up here, and even more from the larger Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. </p>

<p>Or consider a school like Haverford, for example, which can legitimately report that only 11% of its students come from Pennsylvania. But according to Haverford’s own website, another 37% come from other Mid-Atlantic states, so that roughly half of its student body comes from its own region. Add in another 16% from New England and you’ve got nearly two-thirds of the Haverford student body coming from the Northeast, suggesting that it’s really much more a “regional” school than the out-of-state figure alone might seem to imply.</p>

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<p>Really interesting to look at these lists.</p>

<p>Why do the CA state schools limit OOS to that extent, especially when they could use the money? I understand my nephew’s complaint now about feeling limited at a top UC.</p>

<p>Will some of these privates that are majority in state kids merge with publics rather than close as times get harder for low endowment schools?</p>

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<p>“Maryland and Virginia and Delaware should probably be considered in-state for the DC schools.”</p>

<p>Why? Simply proximity? By that way of thinking, West Virginia U. is in a state bordered by all kinds of states - should they all be considered “in-state”? I don’t get the logic.</p>

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<p>The out-of-state figures for the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota are inflated somewhat by tuition reciprocity between the two schools. A lot of Twin Cities-area kids prefer to go to college in Madison and a lot of Wisconsinites, especially from western Wisconsin, prefer to go to school in the Twin Cities, but I’m not sure it should count much toward genuine geographic diversity to have Badgers temporarily become Gophers or vice versa, all at in-state tuition rates. They’re really hard to tell apart unless you get close enough to smell the cheese on the Wisconsinites’ breath.</p>