re: What % of your school’s enrollment comes from inside the SEC footprint?

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The state of Kentucky doesn't have any vet schools. Instead, Auburn reserves a number of enrollments for Kentucky residents. Don't know the details of the arrangement.

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Yep, I had some friends that had come down to Auburn to go to vet school. One of them was a huge Kentucky basketball fan. I'll never forget we were at a party at their place the night Laettner hit that shot to beat KY in the tournament. Dude just fell over like he had died. It was hilarious.

For LSU

LA: 62.3% (out of state enrollment has tripled in the past few years)
TX- 6.5%
Florida- 1.7%
Georgia- 1.6%
Miss- .6%
Tn- .6%
AL-.37%
AR-.27%
SC-.27%
KY- .14%
OK- .09%

The top 5 out of state populations are: Texas, Florida, Georgia, California, Illinois,

So based off some of the info many have responded, along with some digging I did on my own…

% of Students from the SEC footprint:

88.70%- Mississippi
87.90%- Arkansas
86.64%- Oklahoma*
84.30%- Auburn
81.10%- Texas
78.50%- Ole Miss
78.49%- Florida
74.61%- Tennessee
74.17%- LSU
69.07%- Alabama
38.15%- Vanderbilt

Couldn’t locate data for some of the others. Haven’t yet tried to find S Carolina, Kentucky, or Missouri. Also, Oklahoma’s data was for the freshmen class only.

Here is the % of in-state kids:

79.20%- Texas
73.50%- Florida
64.20%- Tennessee
62.40%- Mississippi State
62.30%- LSU
56.00%- Auburn
48.90%- Ole Miss
46.99%- Oklahoma
45.50%- Arkansas
42.40%- Alabama
15.15%- Vanderbilt

To me, Tennessee has the most unique student body, geographically speaking. They have a relatively high percentage of instate kids (64.2%), but their out-of-state kids seem to come from way far off places… even more so than Alabama. Only 10.4% of their student body comes from out of state AND inside the SEC footprint.

While Alabama has the most geographically diverse student body of the public schools, they do take a much higher 26.64% from other states in the SEC footprint.

Some other oddities I found interesting…

36.5% of Oklahoma’s freshmen come from Texas.
28.2% of Arkansas’ freshmen come from Texas.
11.3% of Auburn’s freshmen come from Georgia.

These appear to be the only three schools that have more than 10% of their student body from one single state outside the home state.

Alabama and Auburn both have 1% of their student body from far off Colorado… totaling 800 total students between the two. It seems ooddly high considering Arkansas is half the distance closer to Colorado and only 0.4% of their students come from there…. Tennessee has 0.6% from Colorado and they have a higher percentage of kids from far away compared to Auburn. It’s odd both Auburn and Bama are drawing a decent number from so far away.

Over 9% of Alabama’s student body is from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. That 1 out of every 11 kids who probably grew up going to the beach on the Jersey Shore.

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Read the OP carefully next time.

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Explain it to me ... next time.

Because clearly, I do not understand.

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Number from Texas is surprising.

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Big state with only 1 state school worth attending. Texas sends kids all over the south.

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OP isn’t worded that well.

He provided the percentage breakdown of only AU’s student body from each SEC state.

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Ahhhhhhh .... okay, thank you.

Yeah, the OP's post is very poorly worded.

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The lack of Mississippi is surprising as well. I knew a good bit of folks from Mississippi while I was at Auburn.

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Unless they get a big scholarship or have a special major, seems silly to pay 2x OOS tuition for the same general business degree. Similar to Alabama kids to ole Miss

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I poke fun at Auburn for football all the time, but the veterinary school is supremely legit.

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A bunch of Tennessee and Auburn grads saved my cat's life a few years back. I can't have more respect for both of them. Even in Pittsburgh they're hiring from UT and AU and that says a lot about both programs

Your percentage is off since you're excluding international students.

Texas A&M Fall 2025 Enrollment for SEC footprint.

Texas - 64,341 (86.47%)
Florida - 263 (0.35%)
Louisiana - 230 (0.31%)
Georgia - 224 (0.30%)
Tennessee - 160 (0.22%)
Oklahoma - 122 (0.16%)
Missouri - 117 (0.16%)
Arkansas - 85 (0.11%)
S Carolina - 75 (0.10%)
Alabama - 67 (0.09%)
Mississippi - 52 (0.07%)
Kentucky - 38 (0.05%)


88.40% from the SEC footprint.