Boston Ranked 5th Smartest Metro Area
Bizjournals, the publisher of the Boston Business Journal, has compiled a list of the smartest metropolitan areas across the country.
Madison, Wis. tops the list , with Washington D.C. and San Jose rounding out the top three. Boston ranked fifth.
The rankings were compiled as part of an article about how important an educated population is to an area's economic strength.
"A recent federal report proves the point. It shows that a worker holding a doctorate will earn 70 percent more, on average, than a colleague with a bachelor's degree and 215 percent more than someone who never progressed beyond high school."
Seventy-five percent of Madison's adults have attended college, about three percentage points higher than any other market, according to the study. Its high-school dropout rate of 4.3 percent was the lowest in the study.
Check out the "Brainpower" rankings for the top 100 metro areas.
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