The most educated city in Alabama probably wonât surprise you
It’s only fitting that the city dubbed Alabama’s “most educated” is home to rocket scientists, engineers and experts in national defense.
Huntsville is Alabama’s most educated city, coming in just inside the top 25 nationally, according to a new ranking by Wallethub. The ranking of the 150 most populated U.S. metropolitan statistical areas looked at 11 metrics within two categories: educational attainment and quality of education and attainment gap. The metrics included things such as share of adults with high school, college or graduate degrees, the quality of public schools and the number of enrolled students per capita in the top 913 universities.
The top-rated city was Ann Arbor, Michigan followed by San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara, Calif.; Washington/Arlington/Alexandria, D.C., Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia; and San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley, California metro areas.
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Huntsville was ranked 24th in the country, coming in at 23rd for educational attainment but falling to 61st for quality of education and attainment gap, a metric that measures education gaps between racial, gender and socio-economic groups.
Other Alabama metros making the list were Birmingham/Hoover at 82 and Montgomery at 104.