I’m sure you are right that NE-located schools typically send a higher percentage of graduates to NE employers.
I thought it would be interesting to check some other Midwest business colleges to see how WashU compared.
To review, WashU (Olin) was reportedly:
NE 38%
MW 34%
W 13%
SW 5%
M-A 4%
SE 4%
I found similar data for Michigan (Ross), which was reportedly:
NE 46%
MW 32%
W 9%
SW 5%
M-A 4%
SE 3%
Really very similar, except WashU seems to send somewhat more people West, and Michigan somewhat more East (anecdotally, Michigan does seem rather popular with East Coast kids).
OK, Notre Dame (Mendoza):
NE 34%
MW 45%
W 7%
SW 2%
M-A 4%
SE 6%
A little more concentrated in the MW now. Makes sense to me because ND is a very big school in the Greater Chicago area, and conversely I think East Coast Catholic kids might more often have preferred options in that region.
And speaking of which, I will check out Georgetown (McDonough) for a comparison:
NE 60%
MW 5%
W 7%
SW 3%
M-A 20%
SE 3%
Well, there you go. Way more kids in the NE and M-A, way fewer in the MW.
Let’s look at USC (Marshall):
NE 9%
MW 3%
W 85%
SW 3%
M-A 2%
SE 2%
OK, I think we can see what is happening here.
Perhaps understandably, these coastal schools are mostly sending kids to their respect coasts–like 80+%.
The Midwest schools are sending more kids to the Midwest than the coastal schools, but not anything like 80%. And then most of the difference is going to the Northeast, with most of that specifically going to New York (although WashU a bit more to the West as well).
Edit: It occurred to me it might be worth checking out one more Midwest, Gies at Illinois, to see if after Michigan and such, the big publics start being a little more regionally based.
And sure enough, Gies reported 83% just to Illinois alone. They didn’t break down each state or by region, just listed the top states, but NY was 4%, CA and TX 3%, all others 7%.
So Illinois is a little more like a coastal school in the sense such a high percentage stayed in region, and not nearly as many went NE (NY) or indeed W (CA) as with Michigan, WashU, or ND.