setrnotes.blogg.se - College far away from home

By this measure, 58 percent of counties - containing 14 percent of the U.S. Department of Education IPEDS (and assembled by the Equality of Opportunity project) to measure whether a county has a two- or four-year institution within its borders.

One approach is to use data based on the U.S. This number is harder to calculate than might be expected, but different approaches give similar estimates.

An important share, about 1 in 6, high school seniors lack a nearby college.

Geographic mobility has been declining for a broad set of Americans, but absolute declines have been largest for young individuals, since they had higher initial migration rates to begin with. The second is a widespread decline in the rate at which people move to different states and counties in the United States. Students on the margin of attending may be more likely to choose a nearby institution. The first is a rising share of high school seniors attending college. The reasons for this are not known with certainty, but this change may reflect two other trends over this period. The share of college students attending nearby institutions has grown steadily since 1990, when closer to a third - 37.9 percent - of four-year public college students attended within 50 miles of home. The majority - 56.2 percent - of public four-year college students attend an institution under an hour’s drive away, and nearly 70 percent attend within two hours of their home, according to the latest Higher Education Research Institute’s CIRP survey (see chart).

The share of students who attend college close to home is large and has increased over the past quarter century.Geographic location is an important factor in determining not just where, but whether, a high school senior goes on to college. Access to college education is especially important today because of its large returns and the role that Associate or Bachelor degrees can play in allowing young people to raise themselves from low-income situations. However, the role of geography is overlooked in many higher education funding decisions. About one in six American high school seniors lack access to a nearby college, at either the two- or four-year level. For those who live far from a higher-education institution, the costs of moving across state or county lines are large, and often go far beyond direct travel or start-up adjustment costs.