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November 23, 2009
Public University Rankings by % of Out-of-State Students
U.S. News & World Report has published a ranking of the public universities in its 2010 ranking of the Best National Universities by the percentage of out-of-state students in the freshman class that entered in Fall 2008. Of the 67 public universities in the First Tier of Best National Universities, here are the Top 25 and Bottom 25 in the percentage of out-of-state students:
|
Out-of State Rank |
Out-of State % |
School |
Public Rank |
|
1 |
74% |
Vermont |
39 |
|
2 |
73% |
Delaware |
28 |
|
3 |
48% |
Iowa |
29 |
|
4 |
47% |
Colorado |
34 |
|
5 |
44% |
New Hampshire |
55 |
|
6 |
43% |
Auburn |
39 |
|
7 |
40% |
Oregon |
57 |
|
8 |
38% |
Arizona |
48 |
|
9 |
38% |
South Carolina |
55 |
|
10 |
37% |
Indiana-Bloomington |
29 |
|
11 |
37% |
Alabama |
43 |
|
12 |
36% |
Arkansas |
64 |
|
13 |
36% |
William & Mary |
6 |
|
14 |
36% |
Wisconsin |
9 |
|
15 |
34% |
Clemson |
22 |
|
16 |
34% |
Penn State |
15 |
|
17 |
33% |
Connecticut |
26 |
|
18 |
33% |
Iowa State |
39 |
|
19 |
32% |
Virginia Tech |
29 |
|
20 |
32% |
Miami (Ohio) |
34 |
|
21 |
31% |
Purdue |
22 |
|
22 |
31% |
Georgia Tech |
7 |
|
23 |
31% |
Minnesota |
22 |
|
24 |
30% |
Virginia |
2 |
|
25 |
30% |
Maryland |
18 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
43 |
17% |
North Carolina |
5 |
|
44 |
15% |
Ohio State |
18 |
|
45 |
15% |
Georgia |
21 |
|
46 |
14% |
SUNY-Binghamton |
37 |
|
47 |
14% |
Tennessee |
52 |
|
48 |
12% |
Michigan State |
29 |
|
49 |
11% |
Washington State |
52 |
|
50 |
10% |
Ohio University |
57 |
|
51 |
10% |
Rutgers |
26 |
|
52 |
10% |
UCLA |
2 |
|
53 |
10% |
SUNY-Stony Brook |
43 |
|
54 |
9% |
Florida State |
48 |
|
55 |
9% |
UC-Berkeley |
1 |
|
56 |
9% |
N. Carolina State |
39 |
|
57 |
8% |
Illinois |
9 |
|
58 |
7% |
SUNY-Buffalo |
60 |
|
59 |
6% |
NJ Inst. of Tech. |
57 |
|
60 |
5% |
Texas |
15 |
|
61 |
4% |
UC-Santa Barbara |
11 |
|
62 |
3% |
Florida |
15 |
|
63 |
3% |
UC-Irvine |
14 |
|
64 |
3% |
Texas A&M |
22 |
|
65 |
3% |
UC-Davis |
11 |
|
66 |
3% |
UC-Santa Cruz |
29 |
|
67 |
2% |
UC-Riverside |
43 |
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To make this an arguably valid measure of national stature, the scale needs to be adjusted for size of state. One of the reasons Vermont and Delaware top the scale is that there just aren't that many people in either state. All of the University of California campuses, by contrast, come in at the bottom. I have a hard time concluding that Vermont has greater national stature -- purportedly measured by drawing more students from out-of-state -- than UC Berkeley.
Compare, for example, the situations of Vermont (best) and UC Riverside (worst). In 2008, Vermont had a population of 610,000, California a population of 36,750,000. I doubt that Vermont attracted great numbers of students from other parts of the country; its 74% out-of-state stat probably reflects students from New Hampshire and upstate New York. By contrast, Riverside County, home to UC Riverside, had a 2008 population of 2,100,000. I'm pretty sure that more than a majority of its student body was drawn from outside the county. But it gets no credit for its drawing power on US News' scale because California is so big. If Riverside were a separate state, it would be more than three times the size (by population) of Vermont, but its public university would still probably out-perform Vermont in attracting "out-of-state" students.
Posted by: Theodore Seto | Nov 23, 2009 12:18:12 PM
It's hard to avoid the 3 of the top 5 have good skiing.
Posted by: mike livingston | Nov 23, 2009 3:12:26 PM
