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

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Explain it to me ... next time.

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I’m not sure how to explain the phrase, “ For Auburn (total enrollment; Fall 2025) here are the number of students from each state:” any more clearly

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There are only 33 vet schools in the US. In the SEC 8 of the 16 have a vet school, which is kinda wild. Was 8 of 14 before the last expansion.

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Morill Land Grant Act...

University of South Carolina (Columbia Campus) as of Fall 2025

Total enrollment 40,863 (30,385 undergraduates, 10,478 graduate).

South Carolina 19,869 49%
Georgia 2,578 6%
North Carolina 2,071 5%
Florida 1,588 4%
Virginia 807 2% (under Gifted & Talented Initiative)
Maryland 610 1.5% (under Gifted & Talented Initiative)
New York 517 1.3% (under Gifted & Talented Initiative)
Pennsylvania 408 1% (under Gifted & Talented Initiative)
Texas 397 0.8%
New Jersey 301 0.7% (under Gifted & Talented Initiative)
Tennessee 300 0.7%
Alabama 298 0.7%
Kentucky 298 0.7%
Arkansas 277 0.7%
Louisiana 258 0.7%
Missouri 249 0.7%
Oklahoma 203 0.5%
Mississippi 155 0.4%
Others 9,679 24% (National incl D.C. and PR, and International) <---- didn't realuze it was that high.

(Note: China 26 ... apparently all graduate students in The Moore School of Business)

SC's Gifted & Talented Initiative "Carolina Elite" enrolls 1000s of exceptional undergraduate and graduate students from in state, nationally, and around the world to further their educations in the globally recognized Moore International School of Business, and for their highly regarded Public Honors College, as well as their renowned Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

The International School of Business and Languages Schools go hand in hand.

https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/undergraduate_admissions/honors_and_scholars_programs/

So, apparently, only 54% of SC's Columbia Campus enrollment hails from the SEC footprint.

Of that 9,679 I'm a little surprised to see so many Midwestern, Middle Eastern, Middle European, Eastern European and Southern Europeans with just a smattering of Persians and Central Americans thrown in. SC has one of the highest Persian/Iranian populations in the country. The Shah's wife taught here and much of the extended family still lives here.

We must not like Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans at all. Less than 1% of 1% combined.

I gotta admit that I'm a little surprised that just a little over half of 40k+ are from the SEC footprint.

Interesting numbers across the conference. Some observations:

1. Although Auburn has great OOS scholarships on paper, the total cost of attendance is still higher than most in-state options with NO scholarship at all. This is the case for Texans when comparing UT and ATM to AU. Some other SEC schools throw more at OOS students.

2. Texas and ATM have the state's automatic admissions criteria controlling their enrollment. They have to take the top x% of Texas HS students each year. "X" was originally 10% but now floats at around the top 5-7% for both schools.

3. Back through the 1990's, AU and Texas were screaming bargains in higher ed. I think if you could find data from the '80's and '90's, you would see larger percentages of OOS students for both. That would also be true of other schools that were bargains at the time. Texas as late as 1991 was something like $330 per semester for a full load IIRC, but it has been a long time.

4. Alabama has made a conscious effort to recruit the NE and MW as part of their drive to increase enrollment, which shows in their enrollment breakdown. Others can make the case whether that is good or bad. It is a mixed blessing at best.

Arkansas has a clause that if your a State that borders Arkansas you don't have to pay out of State tuition to go there.

Distance learning is on-line students. It’s massive for some schools. Most useful at the graduate level for MBA’s and such.

My brother and SIL both went to A&M, but they started taking tours with my niece to other schools across the SEC footprint knowing that admissions to A&M and Texas just keep getting more difficult.

Bama made a strong push about 5 years ago tapping into the Houston area. We live in a H-town suburb and I have a son that graduated back then. Bama recruited his high school pretty hard. Obviously I wanted him to go there but he got into aviation his Junior year and wanted to become a pilot so he ended up at LA Tech on damn near a full ride but several of his buddies ended up in T-town. They all pledged fraternities and said that over half of their pledge classes were OOS'ers with lots coming from the NE with the rest lol Texans and Georgia kids that couldn't get into UGA.