Alabamians now a minority at UA

[LucieTheLakie]

<p>This may be a good thing or a bad one (I suppose), depending on your perspective:</p>

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Out-of-state students made up 4,279, or about 62 percent, of this year’s 6,865-person freshman class, according to the Office of Institutional Research’s annual census. In-state students, on the other hand, accounted for 2,474, about 36 percent. While this is the highest the ratio of out-of-state to in-state students in a freshman class has ever been, the trend itself is nothing new. Out-of-state students have outnumbered in-state students in every freshman class since 2011.</p>

<p>This year, the trend of freshman classes with out-of-state majorities has tipped the scales of total student enrollment for the first time. In-state students now account for 17,830, about 49 percent, of the University’s 36,155-person student body. Students from states other than Alabama make up 16,622, about 46 percent, of the student population, while international students make up 1,670, about five percent.</p>

<p>Together, out-of-state and international enrollees total 18,292 students, 51 percent of the University’s student body. By a margin of 462 students, in-state students are a minority for the first time in The University of Alabama’s history.

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<p><a href=“http://cw.ua.edu/article/2014/09/alabamians-now-a-minority-at-ua”>http://cw.ua.edu/article/2014/09/alabamians-now-a-minority-at-ua</a></p>

[Atlanta68]

<p>Someone in that article pointed out that more Alabamians attend UA today than in 2003, so that should be taken into consideration. </p>