My town's newspaper had a section where 13 schools advertised. Most of the schools were in New York, with one in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania. By far the farthest away school that advertised was JMU. Do you know how much JMU advertises in the northeast?

(09-30-2017 11:57 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  My town's newspaper had a section where 13 schools advertised. Most of the schools were in New York, with one in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania. By far the farthest away school that advertised was JMU. Do you know how much JMU advertises in the northeast?

We recruit in the Northeast a lot.

As of last year, we had have approximately 4,000 out of state students from New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, over 72% of our out of state students come from those states: http://www.jmu.edu/instresrch/notes/Vol30no1.pdf

It makes a lot of sense, as the public higher education institutions in those states, with the exception of New York, aren't that great outside of their flagships (i.e. UConn, Rutgers, University of Maryland, Penn State). Plus going to JMU out of state is marginally more expensive than going in-state to some of those schools due to our relatively low out-of-state tuition and lower living costs.

I think a lot of kids leave the northeast for better weather.

On a somewhat related note, Duke football advertises on billboards here in Roanoke, Va. Not only is Roanoke solid Va. Tech country, being 38 miles from Blacksburg and home to Virginia Tech's medical school, but Duke is almost three hours away in another state. And while Duke basketball has fans everywhere due to its lineage, no one, no one, NO ONE gives a rat's ass about Duke football in Roanoke. UVA football is an easy second, and WVU has a decent local following. But Duke?

Advertising is good.

Just as long as it's not embarrassing, like App State's "Hot Hot Hot" or this tragedy:


#UTryTooHard

(09-30-2017 12:14 PM)Jmuwishyouhadadukedog Wrote:  

(09-30-2017 11:57 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  My town's newspaper had a section where 13 schools advertised. Most of the schools were in New York, with one in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania. By far the farthest away school that advertised was JMU. Do you know how much JMU advertises in the northeast?

We recruit in the Northeast a lot.

As of last year, we had have approximately 4,000 out of state students from New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, over 72% of our out of state students come from those states: http://www.jmu.edu/instresrch/notes/Vol30no1.pdf

It makes a lot of sense, as the public higher education institutions in those states, with the exception of New York, aren't that great outside of their flagships (i.e. UConn, Rutgers, University of Maryland, Penn State). Plus going to JMU out of state is marginally more expensive than going in-state to some of those schools due to our relatively low out-of-state tuition and lower living costs.

I heard that the reason so many come from NJ is that there are few colleges there beyond Rutgers and Princeton. I know Maryland schools are full of NJ and NY students to the point that it is tough for MD residents to get into MD schools because the state would prefer to get that out of state tuition.

BTW, Maryland is not in the northeast.

(10-02-2017 05:40 PM)Smokey 1 Wrote:  

(09-30-2017 12:14 PM)Jmuwishyouhadadukedog Wrote:  

(09-30-2017 11:57 AM)EvanJ Wrote:  My town's newspaper had a section where 13 schools advertised. Most of the schools were in New York, with one in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania. By far the farthest away school that advertised was JMU. Do you know how much JMU advertises in the northeast?

We recruit in the Northeast a lot.

As of last year, we had have approximately 4,000 out of state students from New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, over 72% of our out of state students come from those states: http://www.jmu.edu/instresrch/notes/Vol30no1.pdf

It makes a lot of sense, as the public higher education institutions in those states, with the exception of New York, aren't that great outside of their flagships (i.e. UConn, Rutgers, University of Maryland, Penn State). Plus going to JMU out of state is marginally more expensive than going in-state to some of those schools due to our relatively low out-of-state tuition and lower living costs.

I heard that the reason so many come from NJ is that there are few colleges there beyond Rutgers and Princeton. I know Maryland schools are full of NJ and NY students to the point that it is tough for MD residents to get into MD schools because the state would prefer to get that out of state tuition.

BTW, Maryland is not in the northeast.

There are plenty of colleges in NJ, but to your point beyond Rutgers, Princeton, and the College of NJ none of them are that great and many of them don't provide the total college experience.

The SUNY schools are very good schools, and with the combination of very affordable cost and the huge NY population, most of them are now ultra-competitive to gain admittance as an in-state student. That's why you have so much overflow of NY kids going to other states like MD, VA, etc.
Good move by JMU to recruit here