Published July 24, 2018
By : Staff Writer
WalletHub's 2018’s Most & Least Educated Cities in America aims to help determine where Americans are putting their degrees to work.
To come up with the list, WalletHub compared the 150 largest U.S. metropolitan statistical areas across 11 key metrics. The dataset ranges from the share of adults aged 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher to racial education gap to the quality of the public school system.
Data used to create the ranking were collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, GreatSchools.org, Education Cities.org, Yelp and WalletHub research.
Key findings are:
According to WalletHub, the national average for blacks with the same attributes is 13.09 percent and 20.28 percent for their white counterparts.
The Anchorage, AK, metro area has the highest gender education gap, with the share of female bachelor’s degree holders aged 25 and older at 21.56 percent, compared with 17.91 percent for their male counterparts, a difference of 3.65 percent favoring women.
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