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Posted on the "WTFIWWY, Austin" thread but thought it needed it's thread so we can make fun of Houston and Dallas.

 

Austin ranked the 4th most educated city in America.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/most-educated-cities/

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  Geographic Area Name 18+ H.S. Dropout % 25+ Some College w/o Degree % 25+ Bachelor's Completion % 25+ w/ Grad Degree % Racial Gap (White Minus All Races Bachelor's Completion %) Absolute Value of Gender Gap
1 Arlington CDP, Virginia 4.65% 7.51% 76.56% 41.65% −10.47 0.37
2 Atlanta, Georgia 7.00% 13.15% 59.83% 25.75% −20.55 0.49
3 Washington, District of Columbia 7.24% 11.74% 63.05% 37.82% −29.95 1.02
4 Austin, Texas 7.39% 12.72% 59.87% 21.93% −12.23 0.16
5 Madison, Wisconsin 4.56% 14.22% 58.92% 25.65% −4.33 0.88
6 Raleigh, North Carolina 7.16% 15.38% 53.89% 21.75% −14.79 0.97
7 San Francisco, California 10.39% 11.62% 60.90% 26.30% −18.56 0.59
8 Scottsdale, Arizona 3.00% 18.64% 60.44% 23.87% −0.06 2.50
9 Irvine, California 4.03% 13.36% 68.27% 30.92% −1.49 1.86
10 Seattle, Washington 4.08% 11.95% 68.33% 30.47% −4.79 1.99

 

Texas cities on the list

34. Plano

42. Lubbock

60. Irving

64. Houston

69. San Antonio

72. Dallas

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Where are those lovable idiots on the Brazos?

( either city with a major school)

 

Garland Texas has the lowest absolute gender gap.  LBK  is 6th. Houston, Austin, and Irving round out the Top 10 in that category.

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10 minutes ago, slorch said:

Where are those lovable idiots on the Brazos?

( either city with a major school)

 

Garland Texas has the lowest absolute gender gap.  LBK  is 6th. Houston, Austin, and Irving round out the Top 10 in that category.

Surprising since...

Pasadena : Houston

Garland : Dallas

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12 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Notable surprises

12. Boise

14. New Orleans

27. Anchorage

32. Albuquerque

42. Lubbock

 

Albuquerque makes sense due to the labs.  I'm a bit surprised it balances the rest of the city out that well, but there are a lot of folks with advanced degrees in that town working in defense.

Lubbock is more of a surprise to me, but being a college town with some size must help.  There's always been some money up there, mostly from ag and oil, but not a heavily educated populace (seemingly).  Most Tech grads are in DFW, and I'm not sure where the jobs are in Lubbock for those with a degree.  Maybe they've made some improvements on this front in recent years. 

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The percentage of medical professionals in LBK has to be a big driver of their positive ratings on the list.  3 of the top 6 public employers are medical, with Tech also being one of those 6.

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Yet there's still a Chili's on 45th and Lamar.

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To me, New Orleans being 14 is the biggest surprise. What industry and companies are there which would entice and employ so many college degreed people?

 

Some people get liberal arts degrees.

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52 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

To me, New Orleans being 14 is the biggest surprise. What industry and companies are there which would entice and employ so many college degreed people?

 

That one surprised me, too.  Maybe I shouldn't have been--Louisiana is chock full of degree mill institutions of higher learning and for which the job prospects aren't much improved over a high school diploma. 

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1 minute ago, longhornmatt said:

New Orleans is also the surprise to me.  I don’t know Louisiana that well, but I would have assumed Baton Rouge has at least some of the advanced degree magnets like medical centers based on being where the college and government are located.  Does New Orleans just serve the entire state for everything?

Tulane + Med School, Loyola, LSU Health Sciences New Orleans

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I've looked at a 6 different websites listing NO companies. I just don't see the demand to rank it 12th on the list.

Here's a list of top NO workplaces. It's from 2019 but I wouldn't expect the list to change that much.

https://www.nola.com/news/business/top-workplaces-new-orleans-areas-55-best-employers-for-2019/article_e0301e00-c5e3-11e9-8b07-3323be041557.html

 

TOP WORK PLACES 2019

LARGE COMPANIES

RANK, COMPANY

1 Harrah’s New Orleans Casino & Hotel

2 Laitram

3 Dow Chemical Co.

4 Creole Cuisine Restaurant Concepts

5 Entergy Corp.

6 Ochsner Health System

7 Tulane Health System

8 Jefferson Parish

 

MID-SIZE COMPANIES

RANK, COMPANY

1 RaceTrac Petroleum

2 ASI Federal Credit Union

3 Edward Jones

4 Gallo Mechanical

5 1st Lake Properties

6 Oceana Grill

7 Avala

8 Rotolo Consultants Inc.

9 Taste Buds Management

10 Belle Chasse Academy

11 City of Covington

12 Christopher Homes Inc.

13 St. Tammany Clerk of Court

14 Ampirical Solutions

15 Globalstar Inc.

16 Northshore Technical Community College

17 HUB International Gulf South

18 Netchex

19 Crescent City Schools

20 Lucid

21 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

 

SMALL COMPANIES

RANK, COMPANY

1 The Woodhouse Day Spa

2 LAMMICO

3 NOLA Living Realty

4 Stryker Orthopaedics

5 Omega Hospital, LLC

6 Zlien

7 Gardner Realtors

8 Broadspire Services Inc.

9 Kuchler Polk Weiner LLC

10 Mullin Landscape Associates

11 AccuTrans LLC

12 MaxHome/NewBath

13 Ryan Gootee General Contractors

14 Bevolo Gas & Electric Lights

15 M.S. Benbow and Associates

17 Magnolia Physical Therapy

18 Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects

19 OutSolve

20 Louisiana FCU

21 Gillis, Ellis & Baker, Inc.

22 Total Quality Logistics

23 Bellwether Technology Corp.

24 CivicSource

25 Acme Truck Line, Inc.

26 Irwin Fritchie Urquhart & Moore LLC

27 Kean Miller LLP

 

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New Orleans is also the surprise to me.  I don’t know Louisiana that well, but I would have assumed Baton Rouge has at least some of the advanced degree magnets like medical centers based on being where the college and government are located.  Does New Orleans just serve the entire state for everything?

Actually New Orleans is where all the medical centers are located and what is likely the driver for the college degree statistic (Ochsner, Tulane, LSU). There city and state have worked to build out a new medical center post-K as well. Obviously lots of these folks are temporary medical students/residents. Also, Orleans parish has gotten relatively expensive over the past decade, so naturally you’re going to see lower income (and less educated) residents displaced. 
 

Edit: NO is also a university town (Tulane, UNO, Loyola, Xavier, Dillard, etc) so that drives the stat as well. 

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Actually New Orleans is where all the medical centers are located and what is likely the driver for the college degree statistic (Ochsner, Tulane, LSU). There city and state have worked to build out a new medical center post-K as well. Obviously lots of these folks are temporary medical students/residents. Also, Orleans parish has gotten relatively expensive over the past decade, so naturally you’re going to see lower income (and less educated) residents displaced. 

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2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

New Orleans is also the surprise to me.  I don’t know Louisiana that well, but I would have assumed Baton Rouge has at least some of the advanced degree magnets like medical centers based on being where the college and government are located.  Does New Orleans just serve the entire state for everything?

I'm gonna assume a good deal of family money and a lot of smaller oil businesses, with a goodly overlap between the two.  It's somewhat less true with the cost of recovery of local resources these days, but you could have a tiny family drilling or production company in a gulf state or even Arkansas, that started after the war and generated many generations worth of wealth.

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22 hours ago, crash_davis said:

They didn't crack the top 100. Even El Paso, Garland (yes that fucking Garland), and Laredo did.

Maybe Forbes doesn't consider an aggy diploma as credible.

Glad I could help out the stats for Garland, though I live in Rowlett, so I may not count.  :)

Oh, and I call b.s. on this study.  There's no way 1 in every 4 Atlantans has a Master's Degree.

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