
Originally Posted by
Culpeper Hokie
I was researching some alumni numbers by state for a thread over on the football board and found some interesting numbers. These came from the Alumni Association's "Virginia Tech Magazine" Summer 2013 edition. Excluding Virginia, these are the top states (ie: over 1,000) by number of VT alumni:
Maryland - 13,060
North Carolina - 12,946
California - 6,728
Florida - 6,328
Pennsylvania - 6,034
Texas - 4,739
Georgia - 4,464
New Jersey - 3,817
New York - 3,547
Tennessee - 2,967
Ohio - 2,366
Colorado - 2,056
West Virginia - 1,965
Massachusetts - 1,852
Washington (state) - 1,773
Illinois - 1,579
District of Columbia - 1,358
Arizona - 1,212
Connecticut - 1,179
Alabama - 1,060
Michigan - 1,018
That distribution has a definite northeast flavor with 37,775 alumni coming from 11 northern states (including DC) that top 1,000 (MD,PA,NJ,NY,OH,WV,MA,IL,DC,CT,MI). Only 6 southern states have over 1,000 living alumni, for a total of 32,504 (NC,FL,TX,GA,TN,AL).
The biggest surprise: California comes in at number 3, behind only Maryland and North Carolina.
I would have to assume that the current student population is probably similarly distributed.
I just thought these were interesting numbers in the context of conference affinity.