It comes with a great deal of pride that we can announce that
with regard to higher education systems for young adults, Boston
has been ranked as number one throughout the top 100 largest
metropolitan areas in terms of population across the country! In a
study enacted by On Numbers through the Census Bureaus 2010
American Community Survey, it was found that for young adults
between the ages of 18-34, there are more four-year educated
graduates with a bachelors degree than anywhere else
nationwide.
Of course, this immediately got me thinking that there are few
if any 18 year olds who have graduated University already, however
this base of the age bracket was nonetheless included in the
research. It must also be known that those individuals who are
currently enrolled in four-year higher education institutions were
not included in any locality in the United States as it of course
can not be assumed that all of the students will ultimately
graduate nor join the workforce in that same place upon
graduation.
So what does this leave us with? Well, it surely provides us
with a unique inkling into just the sheer quality of people we have
in and around our city of Boston today. The study showed that out
of everybody in this 18-34 range, 39.2% of these working citizens
possess a four-year degree. Seem rather low to you? Not when you
take a step back and think about all of the occupations that do not
require such a high level of education. Washington D.C. was in
second with a percentage of 37.2% only to then be followed by San
Francisco-Oakland, California with 35.6%, San Jose, California at
35.2% and finally, Madison, Wisconsin with 34.8% completing the top
five.
Of the total amount of people able to be pooled from that are
out of University (or whom never attended) in these top 100 highest
populated metropolitan areas, 47.8 million were accounted for in
the 18-34 year-old bracket. Looking at a broad scale of this, these
locations as a whole have 11.9 million residents who have completed
a four-year bachelors degree. This summates to only 24.9% of this
population group on average, far less than the figure of 39.2% that
Boston has accomplished, as mentioned above. In what has seemed to
be a time of many triumphs in the Real Estate market thus far in
2012 for The Greater Boston Area, this is yet more backing to the
notion that our city and its surrounding areas are some of the best
and most desirable places to live in the world.
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