This Washington city ranks as No. 1 spot college students want to move to after school
A Washington city is the most coveted place to move to for college students after graduation, a study shows.
The study was conducted by Axios-Generation Lab Next Cities Index, which “tracks rising U.S. work and culture trends through geographic preferences.”
It surveyed 2,109 college students from two-year and four-year schools across the country in “two waves” — from Nov. 18, 2021 to Feb. 14, 2022.
Most students said they wanted to live in Seattle, the study found.
“It feels like a young-person city,” Riley Harbick, a senior at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, told Axios.
Axios reported the top careers in the survey was health care at 29%, education and research at 15% and tech at 12%.
The study also broke down the survey into gender and political parties.
More college men want to live in the Emerald City, the study found. And Independent was the the top political party for these students.
New York ranked No. 2, then Los Angeles, Denver and Boston.
More college women want to live in New York and Democrats are their preferred political party.
Top 10 metro-cities where college students want to live:
- Seattle
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Denver
- Boston
- Chicago
- Washington D.C.
- Phoenix
- Colorado Springs
- Austin
This story was originally published March 14, 2022 at 4:54 PM with the headline "This Washington city ranks as No. 1 spot college students want to move to after school."
