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re: SEC Schools : Enrollment % by State (per University enrollment reports)
Posted on 4/12/16 at 6:17 pm to DorchesterGamecock
Posted on 4/12/16 at 6:17 pm to DorchesterGamecock
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Eventhough we're in the Deep South, USC has made a conscious effort to recruit more students from NC, Virginia and the mid-Atlantic states... and it's finally paying off. State legislators complain about the school not being for the people of SC... but then the school responds by arguing how the state has all but forced the USC to fiscally operate as a private university, leading to more out of state students (paying higher tuition).
Yea - a lot of the state schools in the SEC that don't have big metro areas that can support the schools alone (Texas, Georgia, Tennessee if you combine MEM/NSV/CHA/KNX) are going that route. Like I said above, I think it's a nice change of pace and can wonders. Shakes things up a bit, but also a lot of those kids take something Southern back with them.......or stay.
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Posted on 4/12/16 at 7:46 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I have always thought that any school that has less then 50% of the student body from in state, doesn't deserve to have any state funding. I have heard the argument about out of state students paying their share of the operation cost of the school, but nobody ever figures in the cost of the buildings and infrastructure. Those were paid on the taxpayers backs for generations. Those OOSS will end up moving back home or to another state after graduation. It is not just UA, AU having 30% of their student body from OOS is unacceptable.
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