Who Will Stay and Who Will Leave?
The report from the Southern Technology Council (STC) provides one of the first in-depth looks at what factors influence graduate migration behavior after college. Putting emphasis is on recent science and engineering graduates, STC identifies several individual, institutional, and state-level predictors of student retention using a series of regression analyses of 44 different variables.
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Link
http://www.southern.org/pubs/migration-2001.pdf