Friday, September 19, 2014

U.S. Most and Least Education Cities

Forbes reports the results of a study of the most (and least) educated large cities in the United States. See the criteria:
To determine the Most And Least Educated Cities In America, financial site WalletHub took a look at the 150 largest metros in the U.S. and ranked them according to nine weighted metrics, including percentage of adult residents with a high school diploma, associate’s degree, baccalaureate degree, graduate or professional degree, or above; number of doctors per capita; percentage of workers with jobs in “computer, engineering, and sciences fields;” quality of public schools and universities; and the number of students enrolled in the top 200 universities in the U.S., per capita.
Most of the top ten were ... no surprise ... university towns. Did we need a study to know this? The only strange member of the top ten was Baltimore, MD, which is nobody's idea of an educated or high tech mecca.

The bottom ten are a whole different story, five of the ten are in CA and 7 of 10 are in areas with a heavy influx of Hispanic migrants, either agricultural CA or border TX. Lakeland, FL, Beaumont, TX, and Rockford, IL, have other issues.