Not only is the gap between the earnings (and employability) of college grads versus high-school grads widening, but an increasing amount of research shows that having a higher density of college-educated workers boosts wages of even those around them without college degrees.
Robert Hollebeek, a data-mining expert, found the region was in a top spot in the number and density of colleges and universities.
Places with higher densities of college graduates attract even more, so that the gap between such communities and less-educated areas widens further.
The high density of art programs at local colleges and universities reliably brings new talent to town.
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"On college campuses, you can have a high density of people, and that crowding can create confusion and make it hard for people to identify what the real threat is," he said.
The scheme is based on a combination of population density, percentage of residents with college level or higher education, percentage of residents 65 years and older, percentage of residents who were agriculture workers and the number of physicians/100 000 people.
