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Interesting enrollment stats
Posted on 7/23/26 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 7/23/26 at 1:30 pm
As of Fall 2025 for undergraduates only...
56.5% of Auburn's 28,953 undergrads were from the state of Alabama.
11.2% from Georgia
4.9% from Florida
3.8% from Texas
3.5% from Tennessee
2.6% from North Carolina
76.7% are from in-state or a neighboring state.
If you compare Auburn's enrollment to our rival across the state, Bama has more kids from each of the 50 states + DC except for the following:
Alabama: Auburn has more in-state undergrads (16,354 to Bama's 15,390).
Georgia: Auburn still attracts more kids from neighboring Georgia (3,250 to 2,649).
North Carolina: Auburn has 757 NC undergrads to Bama's 720.
District of Columbia: Auburn has a surprisingly large number of DC kids (41 vs just 15 at Bama).
At Bama, 1 out of every 6 undergrads is from either Illinois, California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Massachusetts.
Those states make up just 1 out of every 16 kids at Auburn.
56.5% of Auburn's 28,953 undergrads were from the state of Alabama.
11.2% from Georgia
4.9% from Florida
3.8% from Texas
3.5% from Tennessee
2.6% from North Carolina
76.7% are from in-state or a neighboring state.
If you compare Auburn's enrollment to our rival across the state, Bama has more kids from each of the 50 states + DC except for the following:
Alabama: Auburn has more in-state undergrads (16,354 to Bama's 15,390).
Georgia: Auburn still attracts more kids from neighboring Georgia (3,250 to 2,649).
North Carolina: Auburn has 757 NC undergrads to Bama's 720.
District of Columbia: Auburn has a surprisingly large number of DC kids (41 vs just 15 at Bama).
At Bama, 1 out of every 6 undergrads is from either Illinois, California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Massachusetts.
Those states make up just 1 out of every 16 kids at Auburn.
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Posted on 7/23/26 at 1:55 pm to AUTiger789
Having talked with people at both, this has absolutely had a major impact on the general student body culture of both schools. The flip side from Alabama's perspective, i'm sure they are enjoying getting ~2x at least more in tuition for those out of state students 
Posted on 7/23/26 at 2:47 pm to AUTiger789
One less out of state undergrad - my oldest graduated this past May! I'm going to miss those regular trips to Auburn that I've been making the past 4 years...
Posted on 7/23/26 at 3:43 pm to AUTiger789
One common factor with AU and UA students; they both applied to Auburn.
Posted on 7/23/26 at 4:57 pm to AUCE05
Spot on
Posted on 7/23/26 at 7:44 pm to RoscoeSanCarlos
Auburn is one of the last remaining mostly conservative universities. The guys and gals at the top aren’t. Pushing / Teaching propaganda
Posted on 7/24/26 at 7:49 am to AUTiger789
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At Bama, 1 out of every 6 undergrads is from either Illinois, California, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Massachusetts.
I'm sure it's somewhat cyclical, but doesn't Bama have a history of recruiting from the northeast? I seem to remember reading that in the early part of the 20th century Bama activity recruited Jewish students from the eastern seaboard because many of the northeastern schools put quotas on Jewish enrollment.
Posted on 7/24/26 at 9:02 am to AUX3
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Auburn is one of the last remaining mostly conservative universities. The guys and gals at the top aren’t. Pushing / Teaching propaganda
Gina Haspel gave a speech at Auburn University when director of the CIA.
I have a friend, RIP who worked for "the company". I asked him what Haspel was doing at Auburn.
He said "Conservative, God, country and the American way, with a great tech school......she wasnt speaking.....she was recrutin son, you would be surprised how many Auburn folks are at "the company"".
Posted on 7/24/26 at 10:56 am to AUTiger789
Biggest difference is that bama will pay top OOS students to come there, and will make it cheap for upper quartile students, affordable for 26-50th percentile.
At Auburn, if you are OOS and qualify for the highest scholarship, the Presidential scholarship, it is still cheaper to send your kids to places like Texas and ATM. Ask me how I know.....
At Auburn, if you are OOS and qualify for the highest scholarship, the Presidential scholarship, it is still cheaper to send your kids to places like Texas and ATM. Ask me how I know.....
Posted on 7/24/26 at 2:03 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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The flip side from Alabama's perspective, i'm sure they are enjoying getting ~2x at least more in tuition for those out of state students
Very true. Auburn does have a higher instate percentage (56.5% vs 43.2%). I think the biggest difference is that 86.3% from Auburn's students are from inside the SEC's footprint + North Carolina. At Bama, only 72.0% are from that footprint.
Auburn is essentially a Southern University where only about 1 out of every 9 people come from outside the South. At Bama it's more than 1 out of every 4 being not from the South. That makes a huge difference.... culturally speaking.
This post was edited on 7/24/26 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 7/24/26 at 7:05 pm to AUTiger789
Wonder what the % from Tennessee was back in the 80's. Seemed there was a ton back then
Posted on 7/24/26 at 7:11 pm to AUTiger789
Roll Tide retards dont realize they support alabama because its their state school but said school doesn't love them back
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I personally know Bama families that want their kids going to Auburn. If Auburn continues to carry its weight as a conservative, southern school with low crime, low
incidents. then they may become the happening with so many in state alumni they are creating.
EDIT:
I personally know Bama families that want their kids going to Auburn. If Auburn continues to carry its weight as a conservative, southern school with low crime, low
incidents. then they may become the happening with so many in state alumni they are creating.
This post was edited on 7/24/26 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 7/24/26 at 7:55 pm to jangalang
They got deviants running their NIL propaganda over there. They disgust me.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 5:20 pm to AUTiger789
Yeah, I don't know about any of this.
Any macro cultural difference is still likely to come from ag, engineering vs liberal arts business.
The birthplace of 3K to 4K random students ain't gonna make a difference.
As mentioned earlier, UA is paying sons and daughters of out of state grads to come there.
Also, football success does contribute to more random nationals coming to any school.
Any macro cultural difference is still likely to come from ag, engineering vs liberal arts business.
The birthplace of 3K to 4K random students ain't gonna make a difference.
As mentioned earlier, UA is paying sons and daughters of out of state grads to come there.
Also, football success does contribute to more random nationals coming to any school.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 6:58 pm to jangalang
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I personally know Bama families that want their kids going to Auburn.
I just graduated one from Auburn and have an incoming Freshman this year. In both of their moderately sized (5A) high school classes were kids going to Auburn with Bama parents. These parents (who love Bama football) are seeing something valuable in the Auburn college experience. At this school, the Bama/AU split used to be 75%/25% a decade ago. Now it's more like 50%/50% or maybe even a slight edge to Auburn. It would be more a little more if Auburn was easier to get into. I'm torn on this as my son had friends who did not cheer for Auburn sports, which is not something I could have comprehended when I was there. Of course my football teams also were not terrible.
Posted on 7/26/26 at 9:09 pm to TigerTime Burrito
I saw a clip of Cohen saying Auburn had like 70k applicants this year
Posted on 7/28/26 at 8:23 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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Wonder what the % from Tennessee was back in the 80's. Seemed there was a ton back then
Seemed like a ton from Florida back then too
Posted on 7/28/26 at 8:47 am to TigerTime Burrito
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It would be more a little more if Auburn was easier to get into.
Got two in college at the moment. One at UAB the other at Bama.
Auburn has gotten hyper competitive on enrollment, yeah. The one that ended up at Bama her only criteria was a big SEC program.
4.4 GPA, 2nd in her class at Trussville, 35 super score ACT. Bama and MSU both bent over backwards trying to get her on campus and flung financial aid like mad. Auburn really didn’t try lol.
So she chose Bama. Which I can’t complain about because one of the best things you can do for yourself is avoid racking up a ton of debt at an early age if you’re having to pay your own way.
And yeah the majority of her class ended up at Auburn.
Posted on 7/28/26 at 11:02 am to Bigbens42
My youngest will start at Auburn in August. He'll complete the set, the Mrs, me, and his two siblings all graduated from Auburn. Also, my folks and my grandfather are alums.
With as competetive as Auburn has gotten (in admissions, not football), we were worried if he'd make it,
With as competetive as Auburn has gotten (in admissions, not football), we were worried if he'd make it,
Posted on 7/28/26 at 11:26 am to dukkbill
quote:in the late 70’s/early 80s, out of state tuition to AU was less than half of in-state tuition at UF
Seemed like a ton from Florida back then too
if you were from Pensacola, as my future wife was, Auburn is also roughly 2 hours closer to home than Gainesville
the distance is still the same, but tuition at AU is a lot more expensive now
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