{
  "id": 2153652,
  "title": "The states where students are most and least likely to leave home for college, ranked",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/the-states-where-students-are-most-and-least-likely-to-leave-home-for",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T13:55:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/states-students-most-likely-leave-for-college-ranked"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "50. California leads with the lowest out-of-state college enrollment rate at 9.9%, with 43,016 resident first-time students attending out-of-state institutions. Arizona is the most popular destination, attracting 5,537 students.\n\n49. Utah has an out-of-state rate of 10.5%, with 3,497 students leaving for Idaho, which receives 1,038 of those students.\n\n48. Michigan shows a 12.4% out-of-state rate, with 10,185 students enrolling in Ohio, accounting for 22.3% of total out-of-state enrollments.\n\n47. Arizona's out-of-state rate is 12.8%, with 7,695 students heading to California, comprising 12.1% of their total out-of-state choices.\n\n46. Mississippi's rate is 13.2%, with 3,222 students choosing Alabama as their destination, making up 19.1% of their out-of-state enrollment.\n\n45. Florida's out-of-state rate is 13.3%, with 23,780 students moving to Georgia, representing 9.3% of their total out-of-state decisions.\n\n44. Oklahoma has a 14.1% out-of-state rate, with 5,082 students attending Kansas, accounting for 19.8% of their out-of-state choices.\n\n43. Texas shows a 14.2% out-of-state rate, with 41,772 students enrolling in Oklahoma, which receives 4,796 of those students.\n\n42. Alabama also has a 14.2% rate, with 5,701 students attending Mississippi, making up 16.4% of their out-of-state enrollment.\n\n41. Louisiana's out-of-state rate is 14.8%, with 6,186 students choosing Mississippi, accounting for 17.6% of their total out-of-state decisions.\n\n40. Iowa has a 15.4% out-of-state rate, with 0 students mentioned as top destinations in the provided data.",
  "summary": "See which US states send the highest and lowest shares of first-time college students out of state, based on 2024 Department of Education data.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}