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May 13, 2004 North Dakota Has One of the Largest Proportions of Out-of-State First-Year College Students Of all first-year students enrolled in North Dakota colleges and universities (who graduated from high school within the past 12 months), 65 percent were North Dakota residents in the fall of 2000. Thirty-five percent of first-year students in North Dakota who graduated from high school within the past 12 months (2,572 students) came from out-of-state. These statistics place North Dakota with the eighth highest proportion of out-of-state first-year students among states. This month’s “Economic Briefs,” a monthly publication from the North Dakota State Data Center at North Dakota State University, focuses on the residence and migration of first-year college students. The data was provided by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), “Fall Enrollment” survey, 2000. The number of high school graduates in North Dakota has declined over the past few decades from 10,850 in 1970 to 8,641 in 2003. In 2000, approximately 70 percent of North Dakota high school graduates went to college (within one year of graduation). Nationally, only 56 percent of high school graduates went on to college. Of North Dakota recent high school graduates who went on to college somewhere (who graduated from high school within the past 12 months), 76 percent were enrolled in North Dakota colleges or universities in the fall of 2000. This was slightly below the national average of 81 percent of students attending college in their home state. Twenty-four percent of North Dakota recent high school graduates attending college in 2000 left North Dakota to attend college (1,527 students). When one takes into account the 2,572 students entering North Dakota to attend college (first-year students graduating from high school within the past 12 months), the result is a net immigration of 1,045 first-year students to North Dakota. “The large net in-migration of first-year students places North Dakota among the top 10 states in attracting new students and illustrates the high quality of our institutions of higher learning,” says Richard Rathge, State Data Center director. ### Source: Richard
Rathge, (701) 231-7980, Richard.Rathge@ndsu.nodak.edu
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