A LOOK AT WHERE BLINN COLLEGE’S ENROLLMENT COMES FROM
As Blinn College students prepare to head back to class next Monday for the start of the fall semester, data shows that many of them come from outside the College District’s service area.
(courtesy Blinn College)
Data provided by Blinn indicates that 193 Texas counties of origin, meaning the county where a student graduated from high school, are represented in Blinn’s student body. Districtwide in the fall 2020 semester, student enrollment from the College’s 10 most popular counties of origin collectively represented half of total enrollments, with the other half coming from small numbers of students across a large number of different Texas counties.
According to Blinn’s districtwide facilities master plan, an analysis of fall 2019 data showed that approximately 71.4 percent of students listed their residence of origin outside of the College’s service area and more than 40 miles from their respective campus. The service area extends as far north as Robertson County, as far east as Madison County, as far south as Austin and Fayette counties and as far west as Lee County.
The top ten most frequently recorded counties of origin for students across the Blinn College District last fall were Harris, Brazos, Williamson, Montgomery, Washington, Fort Bend, Tarrant, Travis, Bexar and Collin counties. Enrollment from Harris and Brazos counties made up 27.1 percent of enrollment across the College District, while enrollment from Washington County accounted for 2.7 percent of districtwide enrollment.
Looking specifically at the Brenham Campus, enrollment from Washington County made up the second-largest amount of students behind Harris County, which alone made up 25.6 percent of enrollment at the campus. Those two are followed by Austin, Fort Bend, Waller, Montgomery, Williamson, Fayette, Travis and Brazoria counties. Students from Washington County made up 10.7 percent of campus enrollment.