The gap between where colleges and universities are growing and where they are not
U.S. higher education · Data as of 2026-09-24
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13.0%
Spread Between the Fastest and Slowest Growth in Colleges and Universities — South Carolina against North Carolina
# State Colleges and Universities
1 Nevada 38.1% 2 Utah 29.6% 3 Indiana 23.4% 4 District of Columbia 22.5% 5 Arkansas 13.8% 6 Connecticut 13.8% 7 Texas 13.0% 8 Mississippi 10.0% 9 Wisconsin 9.7% 10 South Carolina 7.8%
Methodology
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2019 and 2022, NAICS 6113 (Colleges, universities, and professional schools)
Measure Colleges and Universities, ranked highest first across all U.S. states
(43 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed The tenth-highest value minus the tenth-lowest, across all 43 ranked units. The single extremes are deliberately not used.
Universe Places below a 5,000-resident floor are excluded so a median computed on a handful of households cannot top the ranking.
Vintage 2022
Reproduce this query https://api.census.gov/data/2022/cbp?get=NAME%2CESTAB%2CNAICS2017_LABEL&for=state%3A%2A&NAICS2017=6113&key=YOUR_CENSUS_KEY
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