Note that the article says that ASU recruits not only from CA high schools but also from the CCC’s. ASU obviously sees recruitment opportunity there.
@leftrightleft UIUC is pretty much in the middle of corn fields. Room and board is very expensive. Not many Illinois students live in commuting range, so my 36k number is the COA for students here, as 55k is for non Illinois.
Your example, Illinois, seems to offer little merit and bad need based aid, as well as a high in state list price. Though the biggest exporter per capita, New Jersey, seems to be less bad than Illinois on all of these aspects.
@CU123
“Seeing that it’s not even a border state, that is quite a few Californians.”
Because these monied Californians don’t care about proximity to home, but do care about proximity to world-class skiing. Neither the sport nor studying in Colorado is particularly cheap 
According to the most recent data, only Utah has a higher percentage of students staying in-state than California. The National Center for Education Statistics provides a table of the percent of freshmen enrolling in in-state colleges (fall 2016).
0.23 DC
0.51 Vermont
0.55 New Hampshire
0.57 Connecticut
0.60 Alaska
0.62 Hawaii
0.63 New Jersey
0.65 Rhode Island
0.67 Maryland & Massachusetts
0.69 Delaware & Illinois
0.70 Minnesota
0.71 Maine
0.74 Idaho & North Dakota
0.76 Colorado & Wyoming
0.77 Nevada & South Dakota & West Virginia
0.79 Montana & Washington
0.81 Georgia & Missouri & New York & Oregon & Wisconsin
0.82 Nebraska & Pennsylvania & Virginia
0.84 New Mexico & Tennessee
0.85 Kansas & Ohio
0.86 Indiana & Kentucky & North Carolina & South Carolina
0.87 Alabama & Arkansas & Florida & Iowa
0.88 Louisiana & Michigan
0.89 Arizona & California & Mississippi & Oklahoma & Texas
0.91 Utah
Thanks for the sorted data @warblersrule.
Since about 253,000 Californians are college freshmen each year, having 5,000 of them go to Arizona is not all that big a deal. It looks like a lot of students from Arizona’s perspective, since 40,000 Arizonans are college freshmen anywhere per year. Even more so for Oregon, which has only 27,000 college-bound freshmen of its own per year.
And Wyoming doesn’t need many colleges on that map in #3 because their high schools only graduate about 4500 college-bound freshmen per year.
California has a lot to offer most students to include in state tuition, it’s just the top 10-20% of high school graduates where they have a real problem. That’s 25000 to 50000 students that think they are going to a top 100 school that may not be, those are the ones that leave the state.
@CU123 you sure seem to spend a lot of time on here bashing CA and the their school systems. IME CA, while not perfect, has one of the best college systems in the nation, whether it’s community college, CSU, or UCs.
Hmmmmmm…California has a lot to offer most students…
@cu123…you sound obsessed with “top 100” schools like no other factors matter. Top 10 to 20 percent of California graduates will receive a great education…wherever they go.
@socaldad2002…completely agree that California has one of the best Public college systems in the nation and world.