For thousands of college students, graduation is just around the corner. But where will they go once they graduate?
According to 2010 U.S. census data, the Boston metro area leads the United States in the number of young people with college degrees.
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Analysis by the Business Journals "On Numbers" blog gauged education levels in major U.S. metro areas by tabulating the number of people in the 18 to 34 age category who have bachelor's degrees. Metro areas were ranked by the percentage of the population in that demographic that hold college level-degrees or higher.
In Boston, that number is more than 39 percent, or about two-fifths of young people.
Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Calif., and Madison, Wis., rounded out the top five. Perhaps not surprisingly, there is some overlap with a Fiscal Times list of the ten best cities for young people to find jobs, and with CNBC's top ten cities for young people, which looked at unemployment rates, cost of living and other factors.
On Numbers reported that "three Sunbelt markets where less than one-tenth of all young adults are college-educated" were among the least-educated metro areas in the country, with Stockton, Calif., and Lakeland, Fla., reporting the lowest percentages of all.
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