The media is awash with stories about Ohio's brain drain: in 2007, the Buckeye State saw 6,981 more residents between the ages of 25 and 34 leave the state than migrate into it. What's worse, the more education these young people have, the more likely they are to leave the state. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute has sought to shed light on this important problem--and explore possible solutions.
We commissioned the Farkas Duffet Research Group to create a survey tool that could investigate the attitudes of the state's top college students about their views of Ohio as a place to live, work, and invest themselves after graduation. We also wanted to know how these students view working in and around primary-secondary education and what it would take to entice them into this field.
