U.S. metro areas with the highest percentage of college graduates 2019

This statistic shows the top metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of college graduates in the United States in 2019. In 2019, Boulder in Colorado was ranked first with 64.8 percent of its population having a Bachelor's degree or higher.

Leading metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of college graduates in the United States in 2019

Characteristic	Share of college graduates
Boulder, CO	64.8%
Corvallis, OR	57.9%
Ithaca, NY	56.9%
Ann Arbor, MI	55.9%
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	52.7%
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA	51.4%
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	51.4%
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	49.3%
Charlottesville, VA	49.2%
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT	49.1%
Fort Collins, CO	49%
Iowa City, IA	48.8%
Madison, WI	48.6%
Raleigh-Cary, NC	48%
Barnstable Town, MA	47.1%
Lawrence, KS	47.1%
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	46.3%
Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX	46.2%
Bloomington, IL	45.8%
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	45.8%
Ames, IA	44.6%
Burlington-South Burlington, VT	44.6%
Champaign-Urbana, IL	44.5%
Trenton-Princeton, NJ	44.5%
Missoula, MT	44.4%
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	44.1%
Columbia, MO	44%
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	43.8%
State College, PA	43.8%
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	43.2%
Athens-Clarke County, GA	42.4%
Portland-South Portland, ME	42.3%
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	41.9%
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA	41.8%
Auburn-Opelika, AL	41.4%
Rochester, MN	41.2%
Bloomington, IN	41%
Provo-Orem, UT	40.6%
Fargo, ND-MN	40.4%
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	40.3%
Huntsville, AL	40.2%
Santa Fe, NM	40.1%
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA	39.9%
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	39.9%
Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT	39.7%
Lincoln, NE	39.7%
Flagstaff, AZ	39.6%
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	39.5%
Wilmington, NC	39.3%
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI	39.2%