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Updated: May 14, 2024 @ 7:38 pm
As we enter commencement season, college graduates will be seeking a variety of jobs and lifestyles. Therefore different areas are going to cater more to some than others. For example, one graduate may highly value living in a younger community with plenty of recreational activities to dabble in, while others are focused on career growth and earning as much as possible out of the gate.
With this in mind, SmartAsset set out to determine the best overall places for new college graduates, ranking 370 metro areas based on metrics for the job market, costs and social aspects.
To evaluate overall rankings, we broke our metrics down into three subcategories: Jobs, Affordability and Social, and applied them to 370 metro areas for which data was available.
Jobs defines the career opportunities and stability within a local economy, and consists of:
Affordability evaluates the costs of living in a particular metro area. This data comes from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator for 2023 and incorporates the costs of housing, food, medical care, transportation and other miscellaneous necessities.
Social measures local demographic and business metrics to evaluate general social potential and includes:
The following social metrics were given half-weightings relative to other metrics:
This story was produced by SmartAsset and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media.
As we enter commencement season, college graduates will be seeking a variety of jobs and lifestyles. Therefore different areas are going to cater more to some than others. For example, one graduate may highly value living in a younger community with plenty of recreational activities to dabble in, while others are focused on career growth and earning as much as possible out of the gate.
With this in mind, SmartAsset set out to determine the best overall places for new college graduates, ranking 370 metro areas based on metrics for the job market, costs and social aspects.
To evaluate overall rankings, we broke our metrics down into three subcategories: Jobs, Affordability and Social, and applied them to 370 metro areas for which data was available.
Jobs defines the career opportunities and stability within a local economy, and consists of:
Affordability evaluates the costs of living in a particular metro area. This data comes from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator for 2023 and incorporates the costs of housing, food, medical care, transportation and other miscellaneous necessities.
Social measures local demographic and business metrics to evaluate general social potential and includes:
The following social metrics were given half-weightings relative to other metrics:
This story was produced by SmartAsset and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media.
Originally published on smartasset.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.
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