Southern universities reportedly see massive influx of Northeast students seeking sunshine and Greek life

Students from the Northeast are heading South successful grounds numbers, drawn by universities wherever sunshine, shot and Greek beingness specify field life.

Rather than chasing the Ivy League dream, galore students are present opting for schools successful the Southeastern Conference (SEC), which consists of 16 schools including the University of South Carolina (USC), the University of Alabama, the University of Mississippi and the University of Tennessee, The Sunday Times reported.

Between 2014 and 2023, SEC colleges saw a 91% summation successful undergraduate students from northeastern states, according to The Sunday Times, citing authorities data.

USC unsocial is up 90% implicit that aforesaid period.

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University of South Carolina students observe connected field successful the Thomas Cooper Library reflecting excavation aft the Gamecocks bushed the Iowa Hawkeyes successful the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship crippled connected April 7, 2024, successful Columbia, South Carolina.  (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

USC deed a grounds this twelvemonth with much than 40,000 students. Out-of-state enrollment has jumped 58% implicit the past decade, mostly from the Northeast, arsenic the school's pupil assemblage has grown 46%, according to The Sunday Times.

The largest pipelines are from North Carolina, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, The Sunday Times reported.

"All my friends are from [New] Jersey, [Philadelphia], New York, Maryland," Sean Carroll, a 21-year-old USC elder from New York, told The Sunday Times. "People ever inquire me, ‘was it a civilization shock?’ but there’s truthful galore radical from the northbound that you don’t adjacent recognize you’re successful South Carolina. It’s conscionable truthful trendy."

Carroll, a subordinate of USC’s Chi Psi fraternity, said lone 10 of its 200 members are from southbound of Virginia.

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"Northern fraternities bent with bluish fraternities, confederate with southern," Carroll told The Sunday Times. "Even the tailgate tons are divided."

Meanwhile, Cameron McManus, a precocious schoolhouse elder from the Washington, D.C., suburbs, precocious told Fortune Magazine helium had been eyeing Clemson University, USC oregon the University of North Carolina astatine Chapel Hill aft seeing TikTok and Instagram videos featuring sports, Greek beingness and lukewarm weather.

"You tin beryllium extracurricular each months of the year," McManus said.

Since 2019, applications to Southern colleges person risen 50%, compared to little than 30% for schools successful New England and the mid-Atlantic, Fortune Magazine reported, citing Common Application data.

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Views astir the field of the University of Tennessee connected Sept. 30, 2023 successful Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

The emergence stems from the increasing entreaty of Southern schools and tougher contention for the nation’s astir elite universities, arsenic students present use to much colleges than ever, according to Fortune Magazine.

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As contention intensifies, immoderate Southern states person moved to sphere entree for section students. Clemson’s acceptance complaint has fallen from 52% to 38% successful a decade, The Sunday Times reported.

North Carolina present caps out-of-state enrollment astatine 18%, portion Texas offers guaranteed admittance to its nationalist universities for the apical 10% of precocious schoolhouse graduates, according to The Sunday Times.

USC, SEC and a spokesperson for the New England Board of Higher Education did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.