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Highest public colleges by state

Share of local colleges that are public.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Public institutions as a share of those in the county, the rest being private non-profit and for-profit. It matters mostly for price: in-state tuition exists only at public institutions. Shown only where the county has at least one college, since a share of nothing is not zero percent.

Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Counties with no college.

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Source: IPEDS. · How this is built