Share of U.S. students who enrolled in a college in their own state 2016

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Veera Korhonen,
Aug 9, 2024
This statistic shows the share of first year college students who enrolled in institutions that were in the state where they already lived in 2016. In the fall of 2016, 78.5 percent of all first year students across the United States enrolled in colleges that were situated in the state where they lived.

Share of first year college students in the United States who enrolled in the state were they lived in Fall 2016

CharacteristicShare of students
Texas 94%
New York 92.1%
Alaska 92%
New Jersey 90.1%
California 88.9%
Georgia 87.1%
Louisiana 86.9%
North Carolina 86.8%
Illinois 86.3%
Tennessee 85.2%
Florida 84.7%
Massachusetts 84.1%
Connecticut 82%
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October 2018

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