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Atlanta #16 in 2021’s List of Best College Towns for Life After College

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021

Finding the best university to match one’s talent and future aspirations can be challenging but finding a great college town for life after college can be even harder.

To help graduates decide, we’ve looked at the 100 most successful universities across the U.S. to rank the best college towns for life after college and Atlanta ranks #16 in the top. We analyzed 15 factors across four main dimensions: human capital, housing, economic activity, and earning power & equity.

Here are the main takeaways:

  • Atlanta home to the 21st most successful university in the US, is the 16th-best American college town for recent graduates;
  • Atlanta also ranks as the 13th city to have registered a significant increase in the number of business establishments as well as the 24th to record an increase in the number of housing units correlated with a spike of the population between 2010 and 2019;
  • Moreover, Atlanta is the 26th city to have recorded a significant household income growth over the past decade.

You can find the data and the 15 indicators analyzed in our full report here: https://www.point2homes.com/news/us-real-estate-news/best-college-towns-for-life-after-college-ranking.html