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A study showed that 36% of NYC residents are college-educated. That puts it on par with cities like Baltimore and Provo UT (both 35%), in 12th place in the US.
I'm just wondering, how can a bustling cosmopolitan metropolis have such relatively low education rates? It seems to me that comparable urban centers in Europe (Paris, London, Moscow) may have higher rates among their population.
Yeah but compared to NYC's stature as the biggest city you would expect more. San Jose CA doesn't exactly jump to mind as a world-famous city but its rate is something like 45%.
Yeah but compared to NYC's stature as the biggest city you would expect more. San Jose CA doesn't exactly jump to mind as a world-famous city but its rate is something like 45%.
of course the largest city near silicon valley would have extremely high college education rates. ditto for SF, and likewise for boston with all of its universities
you might expect more but i don't. it's hard for a place with a huge population and a lot of traditional industry (all the shipping through NJ for instance) to have a high college degree rate. I'm impressed with us for making it that high at all
12th out of 100 surveyed does not seem relatively low to me
Not only this, but look at some of the "metro areas". . . Madison, WI is a "metro area", yeah right. The only reason Madison is so high on the list is because of the university.
When I was in the job market two years ago, I interviewed in a location that supposedly had the highest concentration of Ph.D.s in the entire country. What you've got to remember is that a % is a function of a numerator and a denominator. When the denominator is small, it's easier to get a higher %.
So.... 36% of 18,000,000 people in the NY metro area is 6,480,000 people with college degrees. That's an impressive # for such a large metro area. To put things into perspective, the 6+ million college educated in NY metro is a greater population than all those that live in the Washington Metro area.
New York has a lot of immigrants and lower income people that did not enroll in college, but perhaps even enrolled in a technical school or something similar. Also, those European cities are terrible comparisons since they likely aren't as diverse as New York (perhaps not London) and have totally different cultures relating to education.
Wait a min I thought IVY league educated Transplants are moving into NYC by the truckload while SUNY and CUNY educated residents are fleeing the city by the bus load. Nice find btw, Rep. Besides twelfth place is not bad, what do you expect NYC to be number one in everything?
Last edited by Bronxguyanese; 08-12-2012 at 10:10 AM..
I'm just wondering, how can a bustling cosmopolitan metropolis have such relatively low education rates? It seems to me that comparable urban centers in Europe (Paris, London, Moscow) may have higher rates among their population.
They don't. The United States has one of the highest rates of college education in the world, higher than anywhere in Europe except Russia (where some post-secondary education, equivalent to an associate's, was mandated during the Soviet era), and about the same as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. 36% is actually a very high level of college education, relatively speaking.
When they say College Degree, or they talking about Bachelors or above....or at least an Associate Degree?
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