Highschool seniors are flocking to southern universities like Clemson and Alabama over America’s most prestigious schools within the North, a column within the Wall Avenue Journal studies.
“A rising variety of high-school seniors within the North are making an surprising alternative for school: They’re heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama and different universities within the South,” columnists Douglas Belkin and Andrea Fuller wrote.
Belkin and Fuller wrote that though much more college students utilized to Ivy League faculties than previously 20 years, Clemson and Georgia Institute of Know-how “have seen even an even bigger spike in curiosity.”
The column defined additional that these southern faculties boast profession alternatives, an alluring Greek fraternity and sorority life, and sports activities leisure expertise, particularly in soccer.
Former President Donald Trump acknowledges the group throughout halftime of a sport between the South Carolina Gamecocks and Clemson Tigers at Williams-Brice Stadium. (Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports activities)
Moreover, the columnists be aware the southern faculties’ decrease tuition prices and climate have turn into interesting to highschool seniors who’re overlooking the nation’s aggressive East Coast universities.
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They cite faculty counselors in reporting that “many teenagers are desperate to commerce the political polarization ripping aside campuses in New England and New York for the sense of group epitomized by the South’s soccer Saturdays.”
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WSJ columnists Douglas Belkin and Andrea Fuller wrote that southern universities boast profession prospects after faculty, an alluring Greek fraternity and sorority life, and sports activities leisure expertise, particularly in soccer. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Photos)
Per the Wall Avenue Journal column, “The variety of Northerners going to Southern public faculties went up 84% over the previous twenty years, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Avenue Journal evaluation of the most recent out there Training Division knowledge discovered.”
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For instance, the College of Tennessee in Knoxville has attracted extra freshmen from the Northeast over the previous 20 years. The overall freshmen from the Northeast elevated to almost 600 in a category of about 6,800 from round 50 in 2002.
The College of Mississippi, in Oxford, noticed a rise from 11 to greater than 200 in a category of roughly 4,500 in 2022.
The College of Alabama in Tuscaloosa has additionally seen a spike in incoming first-year college students, the column reported additional.
Highschool seniors are flocking to southern universities like Clemson and Alabama over America’s most prestigious schools within the North, a column within the Wall Avenue Journal studies. (Izabela Habur/iStock)
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“At Alabama, purposes have been up greater than 600% in the identical interval — about 3 times as a lot as bids to attend Harvard,” the columnists wrote.
“Southern educational stalwarts, corresponding to Duke, Tulane, Emory and Vanderbilt, have lengthy drawn their share of scholars from up North, however the current uptick of scholars going to the South is fueled by attendance at public universities,” the columnists added.
