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Page | 19 MN STATE DEMOGRAPHIC CENTER JANUARY 2015 24-age groups likely reflects many of the foreign students enrolled in Minnesota college and university settings. Considering the approximately 13,600 annual international arrivals who are age 25 or older, they are most likely to hold a bachelor’s degree as their highest level of education (30%), while an additional 15% of them hold a graduate or professional degree (see Figure 21). This likely reflects some of the international workers arriving in Minnesota via the H-1B VISA program for highly skilled workers in certain occupations, for which a bachelor’s degree is typically a prerequisiteiv. Retention Of Out-Bound Residents Policymakers and other leaders concerned with Minnesota’s migration situation may find it easier to retain current Minnesota residents than attract additional transplants (although this is a worthwhile pursuit as well). Figure 22 shows recent leavers by age and by enrollment in college or graduate school (repeated from earlier in this report), while Figure 23 shows recent leavers (who are not currently students in college or graduate school) by age and household income (split into three equal groups among the entire Minnesota population). Of interest, the greatest numbers of leavers who are in the top third of the income distribution are found in their 30s (about 5,400 leavers) and those 0-19 (5,600, presumably including many children of the first group, plus college-bound teens from higher-income households). As noted before, about 29,000 students leave Minnesota for higher education (with 8,000 fewer students entering our state for this reason). Examining the racial background of out-migrants, we find that non-Hispanic Whites represent 79% of all those leaving, followed by non-Hispanic Asian (7%) and non-Hispanic Black (6%) residents (see Figure 24). These shares of leavers by race and ethnicity closely approximate the distribution in Minnesota’s general population, with the exceptions that non-Hispanic Whites are slightly less likely to leave than we might expect (given their share of the general population, 83%), while non-Hispanic Asians are slightly more likely to leave than we might expect (given their share of the general population, 4%). Other groups are leaving the state roughly proportionally. Figure 22: Annual Leavers From Minnesota, By Age Group And Student Status, 2008-2012 Source: IPUMS version of U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008-2012 American Community Survey. Tabulations by MN State Demographic Center. - 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 AGE Undergrad or Graduate Student Not a Student