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 reviews.
“A growing number of high-school seniors in the North are making an unexpected choice for college: They are heading to Clemson, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Alabama and other universities in the South,” columnists Douglas Belkin and Andrea Fuller wrote.
Belkin and Fuller wrote that though way more college students utilized to Ivy League colleges than up to now 20 years, Clemson and Georgia Institute of Expertise “have seen even a bigger spike in interest.”
The column defined additional that these southern colleges boast profession alternatives, an alluring Greek fraternity and sorority life, and sports activities leisure expertise, particularly in soccer.
Former President Donald Trump acknowledges the gang throughout halftime of a recreation 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 colleges’ decrease tuition prices and climate have change 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 teens are eager to trade the political polarization ripping apart campuses in New England and New York for the sense of community epitomized by the South’s football 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 number of Northerners going to Southern public schools went up 84% over the past two decades, and jumped 30% from 2018 to 2022, a Wall Street Journal analysis of the latest available Education Department data found.”
For instance, the College of Tennessee in Knoxville has attracted extra freshmen from the Northeast over the previous 20 years. The full freshmen from the Northeast elevated to just about 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 reviews. (Izabela Habur/iStock)
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“At Alabama, applications were up more than 600% in the same period — about three times as much as bids to attend Harvard,” the columnists wrote.
“Southern academic stalwarts, such as Duke, Tulane, Emory and Vanderbilt, have long drawn their share of students from up North, but the recent uptick of students going to the South is fueled by attendance at public universities,” the columnists added.
