If an educated populace is a city's calling card, Ann Arbor is flashing a neon sign. A new WalletHub analysis of the nation's 150 largest metro areas ranks the Michigan city as the most educated in the country, thanks to standout numbers at every level of schooling. More than 96% of residents ages 25 and over finished high school, nearly 59% hold at least a bachelor's, and almost one-third have advanced degrees—among the highest rates nationwide. WalletHub looked beyond diplomas, weighing nearly a dozen factors, from degree attainment to public-school quality and the gender gap in education. Here, the top and bottom 10 metropolitan areas on its list:
Most Educated
- Ann Arbor, Michigan (also No. 1 in "Educational Attainment" category)
- Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina (No. 1 in "Quality of Education & Attainment Gap" category)
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-Maryland-Virginia-West Virginia
- Madison, Wisconsin
- San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, California
- Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Massachusetts-New Hampshire
- Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, Texas
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington
Least Educated - Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, North Carolina
- Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas
- Stockton, California
- Fresno, California
- Salinas, California
- Modesto, California
- Bakersfield, California
- Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas
- McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas (last in "Educational Attainment" category)
- Visalia, California
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