A recent poll of 24,000 students at 4-year colleges in battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania showed 94 percent of them are registered to vote.

NEWS9 stopped on the campus of Wheeling Jesuit University to find out what issues are bringing students to the polls in such high numbers.

"I just think we need to be more interdependent as far an energy, making our own energy," said Austin Macri, a WJU junior.

Denise Simpson calls herself a non-traditional student. She's older than some of the other students who roam the campus. She said she's noticed the conversations she's hearing aren't as much about the war as they used to be, but there's no surprise where the focus has shifted.

"The cost of college and jobs for after [graduation] are very important," said junior Emily Taylor

Students said they're scared of what the workforce will be like when it's their time to try and break in.

This is junior Jessica Park's first presidential election as a voter. She's already cast her vote by absentee ballot.

"With me being only a year away from graduation and with the economy being so bad, that's a definite scare because if it's not fixed by the time I get out of college, then I’m going to have a hard enough time trying to ease into the next transition in my life," Park said.

For these students, though, their biggest question is what many other voters have on their minds.

"Who's going to do what they need to do to help me out in the future?" Park said.