Migration of First-Time Freshmen
  Percent of All First-Time Freshmen Attending College in a State Who Are From That State Percent of Home State's First-Time Freshmen Attending College in Home State Net Gain or Loss of First-Time Freshmen 1
Fall 1994 Fall 2004 Fall 1994 Fall 2004 Fall 1994 Fall 2004
United States2 82.7 81.1
84.2
82.8
36,440
54,432
SREB states 82.5 82.7
87.3
87.7
1,945 3
2,949 3
Alabama
82.4
79.7
92.9
90.2
4,685
4,968
Arkansas
83.2
83.6
85.5
88.8
450
1,395
Delaware
58.9
58.7
73.8
71.0
1,398
1,426
Florida
81.6
78.8
84.5
90.3
2,386
17,662
Georgia
84.5
83.3
87.7
86.4
2,162
2,937
Kentucky
84.2
78.2
88.5
89.0
1,394
4,767
Louisiana
82.3
85.3
87.2
90.9
1,768
2,662
Maryland
76.3
79.8
70.4
68.6
-2,707
-7,521
Mississippi
86.4
85.2
91.2
93.4
1,352
2,960
North Carolina
76.5
80.1
92.0
90.8
8,687
9,610
Oklahoma
88.7
82.6
90.4
90.4
548
3,011
South Carolina
82.5
80.9
88.4
89.2
1,906
3,528
Tennessee
78.9
79.6
84.8
84.1
2,371
2,543
Texas
90.4
92.3
92.1
91.0
2,392
-2,885
Virginia
72.9
75.7
80.1
81.4
4,045
4,665
West Virginia
74.2
72.4
84.9
86.0
1,983
2,613
1The net gain or loss for each state is the number of first-time college students entering the state to attend college minus those leaving the state to attend college. 2 The net gain for the United States is the number of first-time college students coming to U.S. colleges from foreign countries and territories, such as Puerto Rico. 3 The net gain for the SREB region is the median of SREB states' figures. It is not a count of net migration into and out of the region.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics: Digest of Education Statistics, 1994 (1994) and 2005 (2006) — (www.nces.ed.gov).
June 2007