From “When College Is Close to Home, What are the Boundaries?”
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, colleges not far from home are increasingly becoming the first choice of many students. Twenty percent of the respondents of this year’s freshman survey of full-time, four-year degree students said that being close to home was a very important factor in their college choice, continuing a slight upward trend that began four decades ago. (The figure was 16 percent in 1983.)
Followup with reader comments: “Is It Going Away to College if College Is Close to Home?”