We are so smart! S-M-R-T!
September 2nd, 2006 @ 1:50 pmThat isn’t really an apt title, but I’m not referencing the Simpsons enough so that’s what you get.
Anyway, apparently San Francisco is the second smartest city in the U.S. This according to CNNMoney.com based on 50.1% of San Francisco’s over 25 population having bachelor degrees. The list is a little skewed by only counting cities with over 250,000 so it excludes any Eurekas, but the Bay Area was (of course) nicely represented with San Jose at #15 (36.1%) and my hometown Oakland also made the top 20 at #18 (33.8%). [via Gawker]
It’d be interesting to see in ten years what those figures are, given the rise of the importance of college education in employability (or at least skilled employability). But then again there are plenty of jobs that don’t require a college education.
Figures of college grads always surprise me, in the sense of seeming low, given that when I graduated from college in the last decade, at my high school, college was a big deal. We had a big evil board in the admin building listing various schools and all the students who got into them. Of course, multiple admissions made the list look better than it really was. It also meant that everyone knew where you got in and could share their unsolicited opinions about that. I know it’s not like that everywhere and it probably wasn’t even like that at my high school ten years before I graduated. I kinda wonder what it’s like at my alma mater now.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
[…] And not only is San Francisco the second “smartest” city in America, hometown Oakland the 18th, and most populus city in the metro area San Jose 15th, but those cities are also on the list of priciest places for renters. San Francisco lands at #2 (behind NYC and its wowza $2,469 average monthly rents), San Jose at #4, and even Oakland’s freaking out the renters at #7. It’s lovely that California has 6 of the top ten. I chalk it up to the weather. […]