Location and College Graduation

Where college graduates move after finishing their degree is an example of the social class dynamic between education, location and income.  The data from this Wall Street Journal interactive article explains some of the dynamics about where graduates move.

First let's look at LUC.  As expected a large majority of students remain in Chicago after graduation, but then look at the secondary cities they settle in:

Compare LUC to Creighton.  Both Jesuit schools and both in the midwest. What do they have in common?

They both send their graduates to the three coasts - east coast, west coast and best coast.  And it is not just these Jesuit schools that do that, take a look at the schools that send a larger share of their graduates to Chicago:

Compare that to the colleges that send a large share of their graduates to middle America, like Fargo:

And this pattern is true for schools in all regions of the country:

 

Here are some other findings from the study: