Smallest Percentage of Out-of-State First-Year Students

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Smallest Percentage of Out-of-State First-Year Students

The students at these schools must have a lot of state pride. Or they're part of secret, exclusive club. Whatever the reason, they're aren't many outsiders getting in!

1. Illinois State University (Normal, IL): 0.9%
2. SUNY — University at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY): 5.0%
3. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX): 5.5%
4. Texas A&M University — College Station (College Station, TX): 5.7%
5. University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): 7.2%
6. North Carolina State University — Raleigh (Raleigh, NC): 9.7%
7. Ohio University (Athens, OH): 9.8%
8. SUNY — Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY): 10.0%
9. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL): 11.3%
10. Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI): 12.1%

Source: Mary Beth Marklein. "Are out-of-state students crowding out in-staters?" USA Today, August 31, 2006. Research based on estimates of full-time students provided by 43 of 75 state universities surveyed in 2006-2007. USA Today is a division of Gannett Co., Inc. Reprinted with permission.