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College towns are siphoning students out of the rural heart of the Farm Belt [View all]
College towns are siphoning students out of the rural heart of the Farm Belt and sending them to urban centers
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Rural Youth Chase Big-City Dreams
More rural high-school graduates see college not so much as a door to opportunity as a ticket out of Nowheresville
By Dante Chinni | Photography by Danny Wilcox Frazier/VII for The Wall Street Journal
June 26, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET
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As more young people decide to pursue four-year degrees, college towns are siphoning students out of the rural heart of the Farm Belt and sending them, degrees in hand, not back to Oskaloosa but to the nation’s urban centers.
Overwhelmingly, University of Iowa students after graduation either stay near the university or scatter to Chicago, Des Moines or other big cities, according to Emsi, a Moscow, Idaho, advisory firm that analyzes labor markets. In 2014, Mahaska County sent some 170 people to Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa, according to Census data, while Johnson County sent only about 20 people back. As recently as 2000, Mahaska Country was sending 73 people to Johnson County and nearly as many, or 71, came back.
The outflow of young adults is one reason the population of Mahaska County is standing still. It has dipped 1% since 2000, while Johnson’s population has grown 32%.
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More rural high-school graduates see college not so much as a door to opportunity as a ticket out of Nowheresville
By Dante Chinni | Photography by Danny Wilcox Frazier/VII for The Wall Street Journal
June 26, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET
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As more young people decide to pursue four-year degrees, college towns are siphoning students out of the rural heart of the Farm Belt and sending them, degrees in hand, not back to Oskaloosa but to the nation’s urban centers.
Overwhelmingly, University of Iowa students after graduation either stay near the university or scatter to Chicago, Des Moines or other big cities, according to Emsi, a Moscow, Idaho, advisory firm that analyzes labor markets. In 2014, Mahaska County sent some 170 people to Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa, according to Census data, while Johnson County sent only about 20 people back. As recently as 2000, Mahaska Country was sending 73 people to Johnson County and nearly as many, or 71, came back.
The outflow of young adults is one reason the population of Mahaska County is standing still. It has dipped 1% since 2000, while Johnson’s population has grown 32%.
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