The Bay Space continues to flex its mind energy touting two of essentially the most educated metro areas in the USA, in response to a WalletHub examine. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ranked second and San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley ranked fifth on a listing that crunched 11 scholarly metrics in 150 giant metropolitan areas. The elements embrace variety of adults with bachelor’s levels or increased, the standard of public colleges within the space, and racial/gender schooling gaps, amongst others.
Silicon Valley beat out San Francisco and the East Bay when it got here to highest proportion of bachelor’s diploma holders, and the South Bay was tied for the highest spot for highest proportion of graduate diploma holders. The highest total metropolis within the examine was Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Cities favor extremely educated employees to gasoline their financial development and tax revenues, in response to the examine. However extremely educated cities may shift sooner or later relying on the trajectory of distant work. An exodus of employees for distant work might have been at play within the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro space, which dropped from the fourth spot total in final 12 months’s examine to quantity 5.
Right here’s the highest 10 cities on the record.
1. Ann Arbor
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara
3. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, Virginia
4. Madison, Wisconsin
5. San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley
6. Boston-Cambridge-Newton
7. Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina
8. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue
9. Austin-Spherical Rock-Georgetown, Texas
10. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT