National trends
National trends
Trends by state
Most students go to college close to home, and state policy moves whole groups of colleges at once. Pick a measure to color the map, or tap a state for its own page. States with fewer than 10 colleges on the site () show counts only.
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Every state and territory
Sortable; alphabetical by default. (the median, not the total).
| Alabama | 29 | -14% | 72% | $20,150 | 21% | 76% | 13,619 | 3,288 | +10,331 |
| Alaska | 3 | Too few colleges to summarize | 280 | 1,221 | -941 | ||||
| Arizona | 17 | +47% | 90% | $30,098 | 37% | 76% | 10,099 | 5,306 | +4,793 |
| Arkansas | 22 | -11% | 71% | $19,354 | 23% | 45% | 5,971 | 2,187 | +3,784 |
| California | 138 | +4% | 74% | $31,319 | 1% | 74% | 15,081 | 35,468 | -20,387 |
| Colorado | 21 | -3% | 86% | $29,971 | 29% | 62% | 9,426 | 10,677 | -1,251 |
| Connecticut | 26 | -5% | 79% | $34,560 | 10% | 73% | 10,946 | 12,515 | -1,569 |
| Delaware | 5 | Too few colleges to summarize | 3,302 | 2,578 | +724 | ||||
| District of Columbia | 10 | +4% | 58% | $35,573 | — | 40% | 8,516 | 2,373 | +6,143 |
| Florida | 65 | +1% | 65% | $22,294 | 12% | 54% | 16,591 | 16,013 | +578 |
| Georgia | 54 | +2% | 73% | $21,561 | 7% | 69% | 11,054 | 13,726 | -2,672 |
| Guam(territory) | 1 | Too few colleges to summarize | 10 | 207 | -197 | ||||
| Hawaii | 7 | Too few colleges to summarize | 1,740 | 3,068 | -1,328 | ||||
| Idaho | 10 | -13% | 84% | $21,464 | 23% | 50% | 2,200 | 2,438 | -238 |
| Illinois | 69 | -16% | 76% | $24,775 | 8% | 84% | 10,941 | 30,289 | -19,348 |
| Indiana | 44 | -13% | 78% | $23,837 | 10% | 91% | 16,028 | 6,149 | +9,879 |
| Iowa | 32 | -19% | 80% | $23,986 | 43% | 81% | 8,317 | 3,148 | +5,169 |
| Kansas | 28 | -18% | 81% | $25,296 | 22% | 82% | 6,500 | 3,536 | +2,964 |
| Kentucky | 30 | -6% | 80% | $18,904 | 31% | 80% | 7,826 | 3,703 | +4,123 |
| Louisiana | 28 | -14% | 78% | $17,993 | 8% | 75% | 7,385 | 3,640 | +3,745 |
| Maine | 17 | -3% | 81% | $24,447 | 24% | 82% | 3,311 | 2,388 | +923 |
| Maryland | 32 | -12% | 76% | $24,766 | 22% | 81% | 8,118 | 16,081 | -7,963 |
| Massachusetts | 71 | -5% | 71% | $33,912 | 11% | 82% | 21,648 | 19,148 | +2,500 |
| Michigan | 46 | -19% | 79% | $21,273 | 8% | 91% | 9,020 | 7,041 | +1,979 |
| Minnesota | 37 | -20% | 84% | $25,099 | 18% | 92% | 6,115 | 13,713 | -7,598 |
| Mississippi | 17 | -21% | 78% | $17,262 | 37% | 65% | 7,835 | 1,702 | +6,133 |
| Missouri | 53 | -17% | 73% | $21,460 | 22% | 74% | 9,110 | 7,628 | +1,482 |
| Montana | 10 | -23% | 82% | $23,004 | 23% | 70% | 3,384 | 1,246 | +2,138 |
| Nebraska | 21 | -6% | 80% | $22,668 | 18% | 67% | 3,334 | 2,545 | +789 |
| Nevada | 8 | Too few colleges to summarize | 1,367 | 3,298 | -1,931 | ||||
| New Hampshire | 12 | -14% | 88% | $29,907 | 49% | 83% | 4,076 | 4,130 | -54 |
| New Jersey | 49 | -3% | 78% | $25,329 | 5% | 88% | 4,989 | 31,096 | -26,107 |
| New Mexico | 10 | -5% | 90% | $15,469 | 23% | 50% | 1,262 | 2,050 | -788 |
| New York | 165 | -8% | 70% | $24,988 | 3% | 82% | 27,290 | 32,496 | -5,206 |
| North Carolina | 59 | -3% | 75% | $22,310 | 15% | 85% | 14,149 | 8,753 | +5,396 |
| North Dakota | 9 | Too few colleges to summarize | 3,514 | 937 | +2,577 | ||||
| Ohio | 77 | -18% | 77% | $24,492 | 11% | 83% | 15,878 | 10,650 | +5,228 |
| Oklahoma | 24 | -18% | 76% | $20,507 | 10% | 63% | 6,842 | 2,783 | +4,059 |
| Oregon | 25 | -9% | 87% | $30,116 | 31% | 88% | 7,479 | 4,905 | +2,574 |
| Pennsylvania | 117 | -17% | 82% | $28,858 | 14% | 91% | 28,462 | 17,839 | +10,623 |
| Puerto Rico(territory) | 39 | -35% | 57% | $16,260 | 0% | 67% | 158 | 983 | -825 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | +1% | 68% | $40,529 | 35% | 90% | 7,428 | 2,590 | +4,838 |
| South Carolina | 36 | -2% | 73% | $21,383 | 25% | 81% | 11,882 | 4,611 | +7,271 |
| South Dakota | 11 | -10% | 85% | $22,275 | 39% | 100% | 2,680 | 1,279 | +1,401 |
| Tennessee | 44 | -16% | 69% | $21,445 | 11% | 61% | 9,970 | 8,576 | +1,394 |
| Texas | 100 | +3% | 84% | $20,587 | 2% | 71% | 9,225 | 30,680 | -21,455 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands(territory) | 1 | Too few colleges to summarize | 25 | 319 | -294 | ||||
| Utah | 11 | +20% | 86% | $23,545 | 27% | 64% | 8,021 | 1,521 | +6,500 |
| Vermont | 8 | Too few colleges to summarize | 3,962 | 1,815 | +2,147 | ||||
| Virginia | 53 | -7% | 83% | $25,349 | 14% | 81% | 11,610 | 13,570 | -1,960 |
| Washington | 29 | -12% | 83% | $28,253 | 10% | 76% | 5,021 | 11,274 | -6,253 |
| West Virginia | 18 | -26% | 93% | $19,654 | 29% | 67% | 4,071 | 1,142 | +2,929 |
| Wisconsin | 34 | -18% | 80% | $24,148 | 18% | 94% | 11,013 | 7,485 | +3,528 |
| Wyoming | 1 | Too few colleges to summarize | 535 | 812 | -277 | ||||
How this was measured
- Which colleges. Every change is over a : colleges with 300 or more undergraduates in both fall 2014 and fall 2024. A state's own page says how many of its colleges are in the panel.
- 10 colleges, not 30. States are a fixed set readers expect to find, and most have fewer than 30 colleges on the site, so the usual 30-college floor relaxes to 10 here.
- Today's classification for public/private and territory status. , not as they were in fall 2014.
- No rankings by quality. The map and table are descriptive; a bigger or smaller change isn't better or worse, and the site doesn't attribute a state's change to a policy.
- Net first-year inflow and the inflow/outflow columns are a single snapshot, fall 2024 (the newest fall the site's per-college home-state tables cover), over campus-based colleges: not that fall, not for-profit, and not a campus that merged or split. They count only first-years at four-year colleges on this site, so a resident who starts at a college not on the site is invisible on both sides.
Sources:College Scorecard (enrollment), Fall 1996 to Fall 2024;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey (admissions section), Fall 2001 to Fall 2013;IPEDS Admissions survey, Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey, 2000–01 to 2023–24;IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey, 2001–02 to 2023–24;IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey (part C, residence of first-time students), Fall 2004 to Fall 2024;inflation: BLS CPI-U, school-year averagesAbout the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)