New Jersey Sends More Students To Out Of State Colleges Than Any Other State

The state is packed with applicants who have high SAT scores and well-off parents, but it has a relatively lean higher education system. More than half of New Jersey high school graduates who enroll at four-year colleges choose one that’s out of state. Many of these students land in the Washington region. New Jersey’s outflow of students is the largest of any state. It’s not that New Jersey students don’t have options at home. But those schools don’t have the capacity for all of the state’s college-bound teenagers. Read more at:
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