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March 16, 2006 North Dakota Continues to Have 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 (7,427 students), 62 percent were North Dakota residents in fall 2002. This means that 38 percent of first-year college students in North Dakota (2,846 students) came from out of state. That places North Dakota with the eighth largest proportion of out-of-state, first-year students among all 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 (high school graduates enrolled in college within one year of high school graduation) using data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics. The number of high school graduates in North Dakota has declined during the past few decades, from 10,850 in 1970 to 8,008 in 2004. In addition, a larger proportion of these graduates who attend college within a year of graduation (first-year students) are leaving the state for college. In fall 1998, 16 percent of North Dakota resident first-year students left the state to attend college. Of North Dakota resident
first-year students in fall 2002 (6,213 students), 74 percent (4,581 students)
were enrolled in North Dakota colleges or universities. This was slightly
below the national average of 81 percent of first-year students attending
college in their home state. Twenty-six percent of North Dakota resident
first-year students (1,632 students) left North Dakota to attend college
in 2002. When taking into account the “The bottom line is that the quality of our university system allowed us to attract 20 percent more recent high school graduates to our state’s colleges and universities than we could have generated by using just North Dakota graduates, something that only six other states in the nation exceeded,” says Richard Rathge, State Data Center director. “These data show not only how well our university system is valued, but also that it is an important drive of population growth.” ### Source:
Richard Rathge, (701) 231-8621, richard.rathge@ndsu.edu
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