Ann Arbor: Most Educated City in America
Using some pretty solid data and metrics, WalletHub ranked Ann Arbor as the No. 1 city in America where educated people are choosing to live.
http://wallethub.com/edu/most-and-least-educated-cities/6656/
"As the fall semester commences, WalletHub determined where the most educated Americans are choosing to settle. In order to do so, we compared the 150 largest U.S. metropolitan statistical areas across nine key metrics. Our data set ranges from the percentage of adults aged 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher to the attainment gap between women and men."
Other B1G cities ranked: Madison (No. 3), East Lansing (No. 8), Minneapolis/St. Paul (No. 9), Columbus (No. 36).
August 18th, 2015 at 12:21 PM ^
a lot of my friends live over there because it's so much more affordable. I've never seen twin cities really like A2-Ypsi where economic classes are so clearly separated
August 18th, 2015 at 6:41 PM ^
Detroit and Grosse Pointe. And in Chicago you have the Hyde Park neighborhood (UChicago, hospitals, Obamas) framed by murder hotspot neighborhoods that rival ISIS controlled areas of the middle east.
August 18th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
except that A2-Ypsi is sort of odd in that it's basically one continuous 'metro' but US 23 is essentially a wall between them where the rich live west and the less rich live to the east. So it's different in that regard because Ann Arbor gets to account for mostly just the rich people of Washtenaw county
August 18th, 2015 at 10:59 AM ^
I think we should take all the money from the 1%ers in A2 and give it to the 99% in Ypsi. Equal results for ALL!!!
August 18th, 2015 at 12:23 PM ^
Yeah, not even remotely what I was getting at
August 18th, 2015 at 11:00 AM ^
Ypsi is included in the study. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is the criteria the study used, is essentially all of "urbanized" Washtenaw County.
August 18th, 2015 at 6:49 AM ^
They sure did combine a lot of places to get that #2 ranking.
August 18th, 2015 at 7:49 AM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
Then I saw EL is 8th? Now I question the whole thing.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
I completely call foul on Colorado Springs, CO.
It could be considered a college town but most of the AFA grads don't stick around after graduation for obvious reasons. Colorado College's total undergrad enrollment is only ~2,000. Hardly significant enough to rate a #4 ranking when compared against total population.
So where does the rest of this academic talent come from? All the diploma mills here who have set up shop to rake in all the DoD tuition assistance and GI Bill dollars.
The majority of degrees of people I know in this area or see on resumes come from U of Phoenix, Colorado Tech, ITT, DeVry etc. Call me a snob, and I really don't give a shit until you've experienced what I'm describing, but it's hard as hell trying to hire talented people who can think critically. The Phoenixes and Colorado Techs of the world simply require a few group projects, post a one page paper weekly online, and occasionally writing something on their own aligned with the instructor's instructions which quotes a buttload of sources but is written just enough in a way which isn't plagiarism.
The last interview I gave, my bosses made me do it; I thought the resume sucked, was of a Colorado Tech grad who had FOUR Masters degrees. When I asked him how one acquires 4 MS degrees, he took 12 courses (on a quarterly schedule) , no peer reviewed research, and got his first MS. After that, he took 2 more courses and got another MS. He took two more courses after that and got another MS, and so on.
August 18th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^
Wow Colorado Tech doesn't "sound" like a UoP type school from the name.
As an aside I'm in grad school and the group work assignments have gotten ridiculous. The simple reason that every single professor in the known universe tries to squeeze these in is to reduce the amount of work THEY have to do i.e. grading 5 papers vs 20 papers.
Can't tell you how many times these group projects were miserable due to slackers or poor work quality.
August 18th, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
Yeah I seen that.
August 18th, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
I understand that East Lansing was designated the "Best City to find a decent corndog when a carnival is not in town"
Not too shabby!
August 18th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
I'm surprised Columbus is as low as it is. Rivalry aside, Columbus is actually a really nice town, with a ton of companies headquartered there. Wendy's, Limited Brands, Cardinal Health, Nationwide all center from there. I lived there for two years, and it was nowhere near as bad as I thought it'd be.
I know we like to think otherwise around here, but there are actually quite a lot of educated people in that town that aren't just educated in football and cooler pooping.
August 18th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^
August 18th, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^