College Enrollment Expected to Drop in States That Restrict Abortion Rights

of college students say state reproductive rights laws affect their decision to stay enrolled at their school
Access to abortion rights has become a selling point for colleges, with almost three-quarters of college students saying that laws governing reproductive health factored into their decision of whether to stay enrolled in their current campus or leave.
of prospective college students would not attend a school in a state whose politics or policies they disagree with.
The trend of declining enrollment in mid- and lower-tier universities is cutting particularly hard against red states, where enrollment this fall declined on average, while states with Democratic governors crept up ever so slightly.
Veering to the right on abortion is only going to make retaining rankings and prestige more difficult for red states, which were already having a tough time attracting talent among students and professors alike.