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re: College Grad percentage by State SEC Country - Mizzou, good news 4U
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:16 pm to FishFearMe
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:16 pm to FishFearMe
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You may want to qualify your poll with the factor that it may be harder to get a University degree in some states. i.e. the weaker students are weeded out.
there are shitty colleges in every state anyone can get into with barely more than a high school diploma
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Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:20 pm to roadGator
No - I looked at the table, finally. But the thread title is wrong.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:22 pm to roadGator
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If you went to college you'd know that.
Do you see a script A next to my screen name? No, because I graduated from college. There's no denying that Floridians are the weirdest folks in the country. Then again, I was living in the Keys for the last year.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:28 pm to roadGator
Somebody should draw up a credible list of what sorts of industries and business/technological hotspots they have in each state. For Mississippi, for instance, there's the Corp of Engineers. Here in NC, the rate is higher than all SEC states except Missouri because the Research Triangle Park is here. And so forth.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:28 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
I know 1 person in the Keys that's not weird. So, your assertion is still incorrect.
How did you like 12 months there?
How did you like 12 months there?
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:29 pm to FishFearMe
There are literally dozens of places in TX to get a four year degree... nothing short of a pulse will get you into most of them.
Of all the states listed, Texas has no excuse for being that low
Of all the states listed, Texas has no excuse for being that low
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:29 pm to Diamondawg
I accept your admission of being wrong and your apology. 
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:32 pm to lsufball19
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there are shitty colleges in every state anyone can get into with barely more than a high school diploma
They're counting Associates and higher, so, yeah, JCs and CCs are going to be included. For instance, Mississippi's Hinds Community College is the largest in Mississippi by enrollment, though that's spread over several campuses IIRC.
Edit: to clarify, they're the largest college by enrollment period, not just out of CCs. So more than MSU, OM, and SMU.
This post was edited on 1/24/16 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:37 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
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Do you see a script A next to my screen name? No, because I graduated from college. There's no denying that Floridians are the weirdest folks in the country. Then again, I was living in the Keys for the last year.
Hey, frickstick. There are about twice as many graduates coming out of the University of Alabama as there are coming from Ole Miss. That's with tougher admission requirements, too.
Suck it.
This post was edited on 1/24/16 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:52 pm to roadGator
40 percent of the state having a degree is wayyy too high and the "everybody has to go to college" line of thinking has been a huge contributor in the demise of our country's middle class. This is not something to be proud of and shaming people who chose not to go to college in favor of learning a trade is awful.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:53 pm to beaverfever
A much more interesting list would be average college debt per capita.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:53 pm to beaverfever
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40 percent of the state having a degree is wayyy too high
You live in the correct state apparently. Congrats.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 3:59 pm to roadGator
Your friend sounds like an anomaly 
It was really nice seeing the Gulf and Atlantic every day, and of course, the weather is amazing. There's also a lot of fun to be had with all the outdoor activities on the water and the nightlife. The people there weren't my favorite, though, as they were either native Conchs who only like/trust fellow Conchs, or they were from elsewhere in the country and thought going to the Keys would alleviate their problems. A lot of self-important folks.
I was born in Naples and my parents still have a house over by the Turtle Club down there, I like Naples much better than the Keys. It's gotten too big for my liking, though.
It was really nice seeing the Gulf and Atlantic every day, and of course, the weather is amazing. There's also a lot of fun to be had with all the outdoor activities on the water and the nightlife. The people there weren't my favorite, though, as they were either native Conchs who only like/trust fellow Conchs, or they were from elsewhere in the country and thought going to the Keys would alleviate their problems. A lot of self-important folks.
I was born in Naples and my parents still have a house over by the Turtle Club down there, I like Naples much better than the Keys. It's gotten too big for my liking, though.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 4:02 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Also, SC leads the SEC states in trailer homes as well. That's pretty backwoods.
Not really. Most trailer homes are near urban areas.
Never seen more trailer parks anywhere like I've seen in North Carolina. Got nothing against NC, just an observation
Posted on 1/24/16 at 4:16 pm to roadGator
People are making a big deal in this thread, but the differences by state are statistically insignificant in most cases.
Honestly, I'm surprised that Alabama is so low as we have a lot (too many, in my opinion) of public universities--when we really should just be concentrating all of that higher education money on only several big schools. I guess that it just goes to show that more schools does not = more grads.
Ditto for Louisiana. Louisiana has literally like 10 universities in NCAA Division I alone...back in the 1990s I seem to recall hearing that only California, Ohio, and Texas had more Division I schools than Louisiana...yet according to the OP's stats, Louisiana has the second lowest percentage of college grads in all southeastern states...
Honestly, I'm surprised that Alabama is so low as we have a lot (too many, in my opinion) of public universities--when we really should just be concentrating all of that higher education money on only several big schools. I guess that it just goes to show that more schools does not = more grads.
Ditto for Louisiana. Louisiana has literally like 10 universities in NCAA Division I alone...back in the 1990s I seem to recall hearing that only California, Ohio, and Texas had more Division I schools than Louisiana...yet according to the OP's stats, Louisiana has the second lowest percentage of college grads in all southeastern states...
This post was edited on 1/24/16 at 7:08 pm
Posted on 1/24/16 at 4:20 pm to roadGator
It'd be interesting to see how many of these percentages gel with how many college grads the states actually produce. For example, here in Alabama, 99.9% of college grads seem to ultimately move to Atlanta. I heard 99.9% of Louisiana's grads move to Houston, etc.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 4:36 pm to roadGator
Wow. Those all seem low. I am not sure I even know 10 people who do not have a college degree. I was thinking at least 50% would be the average.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 5:06 pm to aggiegreen
quote:I live in an area where probably 80% of the adults have a degree. I worked in a hospital for a hundred years so almost everyone that touched a patient had at least an associate degree. But, if you go to the Mississippi Delta, it's probably 1 in a 100. It's the govt pushing college education so they can promise the forgiving a bunch of college loan debt so they can get more Democrat votes.
Wow. Those all seem low. I am not sure I even know 10 people who do not have a college degree. I was thinking at least 50% would be the average.
Posted on 1/24/16 at 5:41 pm to Diamondawg
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I worked in a hospital for a hundred years
You a vampire by chance?
Posted on 1/24/16 at 5:43 pm to TheDude321
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It'd be interesting to see how many of these percentages gel with how many college grads the states actually produce. For example, here in Alabama, 99.9% of college grads seem to ultimately move to Atlanta. I heard 99.9% of Louisiana's grads move to Houston, etc.
Ya, you can apply that same logic for Arkansas grads moving to Dallas/Fort Worth area.
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