The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area is the ninth most educated in the country, according to a study by personal finance site WalletHub.
WalletHub compared the 150 largest metropolitan areas using 11 key metrics. Its data set ranges from the share of adults aged 25 and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher to the quality of the public school system to the gender education gap.
Greater Seattle fell just behind Raleigh-Cary, NC, and just ahead of Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, Texas. Seattle got an overall score of 76.09.
“Despite the continued push for more vocational training at U.S. colleges and universities, the true benefit of a college degree is the acquisition of numeracy
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