Posted on 07/31/2006 11:47:02 AM PDT by george76
New Jersey is the perennial loser in the student migration wars: more of its residents leave the state to go to college than anywhere else in the country.
On the other end of the spectrum, so many students have decided that sunshine, mosquitoes and the Marlins are the essential elements of the college experience that Florida is the state with the highest “net migration” (the number who enter minus the number who leave).
Source: Interstate Commission for Higher Education; number of students in 2005 and 2015 are projections based on 2001-2 data...
The swelling population of 18-year-olds — members of the demographic behemoth known as the echo boom, offspring of the baby boomers — is expected to peak in 2009, when the largest group of high school seniors in the nation’s history, 3.2 million, are to graduate.
While a slow descent is projected to follow, the growing value of a college degree means record high enrollments every year until 2015, according to a June report from the United States Department of Education.
College-age populations of the Midwest and Northeast are shrinking, while those in the South and West are rising. States with large immigrant populations, like Florida and Arizona, are expected to see the most growth in the college-age pipeline.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Nicer weather + lower costs = more college students
My homeschooled girls are now up to 7th grade, and there isn't anything about school that I miss. I'm beginning to think the same about college.
Illinois and Indiana must have beaches I've missed.
That certainly seems out of line with what is really going on in Alaska. The population continues to grow and the census count misses a lot of them. High school grads might be fewer, but GEDs are up. Much of the new population is in their twenties and may not be college types. A lot of kids just stop going to school so they can hang out, maybe start getting job.
You'd think Hawaii would do better in this regard :)
After having driven through New Jersey twice this weekend, north-to-south and south-to-north (and paying dearly in tolls for that privilege.... just where does all that money go I wonder?), I don't know why anyone stays there.
I don't know why anyone stays there.
Come for the scenery, stay for the aroma.
Well, Jersey, NY and Mass all have some great beaches - so it must be more than that...
New Jersey is owned and operated by the Mafia. From the Governor's mansion on down; the most corrupt tax-rigged state in the union.
We homeschooled through 9th grade. We used the "dual credit" program at the local community college from 10th through 12th grade. Completely skipped high school, and had an AA, tuition free, at the same time he would have graduated high school. (I was more than happy to use the dual credit program because my head was exploding from trying to teach the higher maths and sciences, LOL.)
It worked wonderfully. Now he's 18 and transferring in as a Junior to our local state university. He'll live at home (the campus is only 4 miles from our home), and has qualified for the in state 100 percent tuition scholarship. So the Bachelor's degree will have been earned tuition free. I'm not complaining.
But you aren't even allowed to pump yer own gas. ;-p
"Florida is cool, and the Dakotas can be a great deal.
How the echo boom is shaping the college search..."
Those graphics are good, but they understate the issue. It's not just the number of people who are moving, it is the fact that they tend to be the more productive people.
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