<p>Anyone here with children at a college out of state? What happens after they graduate?? Bring them back home with a degree from a college that no one in your state has heard of?
Please, share stories (or hopeful plans).</p>
<p>What makes you think that employers would not have heard of the college? </p>
<p>And just throwing this out…some kids go OOS for school because they DON’T want to go back “home” afterward! ;)</p>
<p>My son swears he will NEVER live in our state again after college and he is an OOS student now 5 hours away!</p>
<p>My daughter went to college in Illinois. After graduation she moved to China for a year where she taught and had fun traveling. Then she came home, lived and taught at our local MS for a year. Now she is living and teaching in NYC. </p>
<p>I’m just happy she is on the East Coast. I think going out of state for college can give these young adults the confidence to know that they can live anywhere and survive or make them take stock and realize what they liked about their home and move back. My son, a senior in College in Virginia, says he is open to living anywhere after graduation.</p>
<p>I think that most kids that choose an OOS are pretty open-minded and may not plan on returning to their home state. Unfortunately, my son has learned that the state where is going to school, is known for turning out the most grads in his field, hence the salaries in that state are the lowest in the nation. I had never heard of his school before, but I think his degree will be so marketable (health care) that it won’t matter to employers.</p>
<p>My 2 oldest daughters graduated from OOS colleges in 2005 and 2009. We never expected them to move back to this area, which just doesn’t offer what they’ve found where they now live: a busy metropolitan area with a large population of young professionals, and many opportunities for career advancement, culture, and fun. The youngest d, also in school OOS, isn’t planning to move back after graduation, either. Even if she does, we very likely won’t be here (or will at least be in the process of packing up. Waiting for the housing market to improve …)</p>
<p>Maybe I’d feel differently if we were the ones who lived in an area that could give my kids the best possible environment for happiness. I’ve felt a lot of satisfaction from knowing that my children are off to a happy start, even if it is 400 miles away.</p>
<p>I doubt my son will come back to our state next year. We have the highest unemployment in the nation and he’s more interested in exploring other parts of the country. As far as “knowing the college”, with over 3000 colleges in the US I would hazard a guess most HR recruiters don’t know “every college.” It’s much more about the kid and the degree and the internships/work history than the college.</p>
<p>My DH left “home” to go 3 hours away to school (different state). Then he went even further away for grad school and even further away for his first job. He never had any intention of going back home (altho his mother says otherwise 
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<p>DS#1 is not applying to any in-state schools. Just not interested in any of them.</p>
<p>Not my basement, I hope ;)</p>
<p>S is a senior at far-away school. (It would take 24 hours to drive there). We moved after his 2nd year of college, so where we live now doesn’t feel much like home to him. He’s lived in a bunch of places, but is not too attached to any of them. We’ll wait and see.
I’m not worried about non-recognition of his (well-known only in certain very small circles!) college name. I don’t think that will be a big factor in not getting/getting a job. (The liberal arts degree is going to be more of an issue. . .)</p>
<p>D has informed me that I cannot move while she’s away at college because she is going to come home (that’s assuming she goes OOS because right now she is balking).</p>
<p>I stayed in the area near my college after I graduated. A lot of people do, if their college is somewhere appealing to twentysomethings. Others go somewhere completely different, to work for a particular company or go to graduate or professional school.</p>
<p>The ones who go back to their home state, in my experience, are usually Californians who have been hired by Silicon Valley companies or accepted by California grad programs (and while they are not going back for the sake of going back, in my experience, Californians are the ones who <em>want</em> to go back).</p>
<p>I suspect in my daughter’s case that she may end up even farther away from home than she is now. The graduate program’s she is most interested in would mean a move to the west coast or Florida.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the kid is not interested in returning to this region. That’s fine, because we will be retiring before she graduates and will be moving to the Southwest. We may have a spare bedroom for her…maybe - lol</p>
<p>from End-of-the-Oregon Trail, ->BS school > MS school > overseas internships > Seattle. :)</p>
<p>The rule of thumb I always heard was that graduates settle in one of three places:
- Hometown Area
- Where they went to college
- Nearest big city to college/First place they get a job.</p>
<p>As for strategies, I think it depends on a) whether they want to come back, b) can you/they afford to support them at their college town while they look for work and c) what they majored in, there’s not much point in a marine sciences major moving to Nebraska for example.</p>
<p>I am not a parent, but I would not be surprised if I wound up living on the East Coast after I finish my master’s degree. There are not many jobs in the Midwest (outside Chicago).</p>
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<p>Queen sounds like she should stay instate. I’m sure you have some good schools that aren’t too far from home. Pushing her to go OOS might not be a good idea.</p>
<p>toledo, my Queen is unpushable. 
Besides, instate means tuition less than $10K at the flagship. If there’s any pushing to be done, I’m pushing instate!</p>
<p>With degree related to medical field they can go anywhere in any economic condition, I cannot think about exceptions. Engineering is pretty safe also, although engineering firms tend to hire from local colleges. I am not familiar with anything else. If I were graduate today, I would apply anywhere, including abroad, just to get an experience, and I would accept any offer in a field of study. Then, after year or so, I would look around to see if I can get into place that fits me better.</p>
<p>I think the likelihood of kids returning home after attending school elsewhere depends to a large extent on where “home” is. Our daughter moved to Boston (about an hour away from us) after graduating from college in the midwest. She found her job largely through friends from college who’d also moved to Boston and has a large group of fellow alums with whom she socializes; while some of her fellow midwest-school alums hail from the Boston area, others are from all over the country. We consider ourselves fortunate that we live so close to a “magnet” city for young adults.</p>