Reviewed by: Elizabeth Hobbs
WalletHub says Huntsville is one of the most educated cities in the country
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Most of us have seen the stats that show Huntsville has the largest concentration of engineers and PhDs in the country, so it shouldn’t surprise many people that the Rocket City was listed in a recent list of the country’s most educated cities.
According to financial wellness publication WalletHub, Huntsville is among the top 20 in its 2025 Most Educated Cities in America list.
WalletHub recognizes Huntsville’s smarts
Source: WalletHub
To determine where the most educated Americans are putting their degrees to work, WalletHub compared the 150 largest metropolitan statistical areas across 11 key metrics.
The data set for this study 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.
Here are WalletHub’s 20 Most Educated Cities in America:
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
- Madison, WI
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- Washington, DC/Arlington, VA
- Raleigh-Cary, NC
- San Francisco-Berkeley, CA
- Austin-Round Rock, TX
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
- Boston-Cambridge, MA
- Denver-Aurora, CO
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Portland, ME
- Provo, UT
- Huntsville, AL
- Portland-Vancouver, OR
- Bridgeport-Stamford, CT
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN
- Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
- Trenton-Princeton, NJ
Source: WalletHub
“The most educated cities provide good learning opportunities from childhood all the way through the graduate level. In addition to overall education, it’s also important to look at how well cities promote educational equality when it comes to race and gender.”
Chip Lupo, WalletHub analyst
Where other Alabama cities ranked:
- Birmingham (79th)
- Montgomery (103rd)
- Mobile (127th)
“Innovation is more likely to occur when one’s mindset is expanded by exposure to classic and new ideas. Highly educated cities enjoy a natural resilience as the workforce is better equipped to ride the waves of change.”
Dr. Brett S. Sharp, panelist and Political Science/Public Administration professor at the University of Central Oklahoma
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