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Percent of resident over 25 with a Bachelor's Degree or higher (2007)
1. Seattle 52.7%
2. tie - San Francisco 50.1%
2. tie - Raleigh 50.1%
4. Washington DC 45.3%
5. Austin 44.1%
6. Minneapolis 43.2%
7. Atlanta 42.4%
8. Boston 40.9%
9. San Diego 40.4%
10. Lexington KY 39.5%
Where top 10% of graduates of top 5 colleges choose to migrate for careers is far more interesting data
Mr. Gates is a drop-out from Harvard undergrad....numerous tech titans are college dropouts...and many are dropouts from Stanford's Engineering PhD program
Mr. Gates is a drop-out from Harvard undergrad....numerous tech titans are college dropouts...and many are dropouts from Stanford's Engineering PhD program
It can be meaningful in the sense of showing places you're more likely to find a larger number of intellectuals. I noticed most, if not all the cities on the list, are predominantly liberal.
I agree a lot of people in IT are self-taught. I believe some higher education is needed in the U.S, as K-12 is more focused on fun than learning.
University education tends to train you to work for someone else - not to become an entrepreneur. I know numerous cases of drop-outs. Then again it depends what you want from life. Most people I know don't want to become self-employed because they fear losing what they have.
Those of my relatives who have studied a lot (doctorate level and above - MBA is a different case) have a comfortable life but the ones who are seriously rich have hardly finished high school, and the ones who got formal education didn't do well because of that. Academia doesn't pay much.
I believe one should not regret any experience, but a lot of longer courses are waste of time. It's of course different if you're idealistic and study only because of a great passion for a subject.
The core Northern Virginia jurisdictions of Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William comprising a total population of 1,973,513 is highly educated, with 55.5% of its population 25 years or older holding a bachelor's degree or higher. This is comparable to Seattle, the most educated large city in the U.S., with 53.4% of residents having at least a bachelor's degree.[23][24] The number of graduate/professional degree holders in Arlington is relatively high at 34.3%, nearly quadruple the rate of the U.S. population as a whole.[25]
This article also cites Census data, however from the Census website. Where is Encarta getting their info from? King County (where Seattle is) has 1,859,284 people and a 43.7% attainment rate - a better comparison in my opinion.
Maybe the Encarta list was for cities with a population over 350,000 or so. Madison's city proper population is only 225,000, with a metro of 550,000. Quite a bit smaller than the other cities.
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Maybe the Encarta list was for cities with a population over 350,000 or so. Madison's city proper population is only 225,000, with a metro of 550,000. Quite a bit smaller than the other cities.
I wondered about that too, since I remember Madison usually making list like this one. The threshold is probably 250,000+ since Lexington is the smallest listed at 280,000 and Madison is omitted
Are college towns included? Champaign-Urbana, IL have a high number of college graduates.
If it's census data the students are recorded in the town/city of residence which is not necessarily where they attend college.
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