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Lowest nearest college by state

Miles to the nearest bachelor's-granting institution.

Straight-line distance from the county's population-weighted centre to the nearest campus, so it measures from where people live rather than the county's geometric middle.

  1. 1District of Columbia1.0 mi
  2. 2Rhode Island2.1 mi
  3. 3New York3.4 mi
  4. 4Pennsylvania4.5 mi
  5. 5New Jersey4.7 mi
  6. 6California4.8 mi
  7. 7Connecticut4.9 mi
  8. 8Ohio4.9 mi
  9. 9Massachusetts5.4 mi
  10. 10Maryland5.5 mi
  11. 11Washington5.6 mi
  12. 12Florida5.8 mi
  13. 13Utah5.9 mi
  14. 14Nevada6.1 mi
  15. 15Illinois6.6 mi
  16. 16South Carolina6.9 mi
  17. 17Colorado7.2 mi
  18. 18Virginia7.2 mi
  19. 19Indiana7.4 mi
  20. 20Texas8.1 mi
  21. 21Georgia8.8 mi
  22. 22Tennessee8.8 mi
  23. 23Delaware8.9 mi
  24. 24Michigan8.9 mi
  25. 25West Virginia9.4 mi
  26. 26North Carolina9.7 mi
  27. 27Maine10 mi
  28. 28Louisiana10 mi
  29. 29New Hampshire10 mi
  30. 30Vermont10 mi
  31. 31Wisconsin11 mi
  32. 32Arizona11 mi
  33. 33Hawaii11 mi
  34. 34Oregon11 mi
  35. 35Kentucky12 mi
  36. 36Oklahoma12 mi
  37. 37Alabama12 mi
  38. 38Arkansas12 mi
  39. 39Iowa12 mi
  40. 40Missouri12 mi
  41. 41Kansas12 mi
  42. 42Minnesota13 mi
  43. 43Nebraska14 mi
  44. 44Idaho14 mi
  45. 45North Dakota15 mi
  46. 46South Dakota15 mi
  47. 47New Mexico18 mi
  48. 48Montana23 mi
  49. 49Mississippi24 mi
  50. 50Wyoming48 mi
  51. 51Alaska65 mi
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Source: IPEDS via Urban Institute. · How this is built