US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share

University Park, United States has the highest residents with a bachelor's degree or higher of the 30 cities compared: 90.85 % (ACS median gross rent, 2026-07-04).

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US city records ranked by the ACS share of adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Items compared: 30
Countries represented: 1
Last checked: 2026-07-04

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Original rank	City or place			Source and scope
1	University Park, United States	90.85 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
2	Mountain Brook, United States	88.56 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
3	Los Altos, United States	88.12 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
4	Princeton, United States	84.71 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
5	Wilmette, United States	83.61 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
6	Hoboken, United States	82.62 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
7	Palo Alto, United States	82.31 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
8	Cupertino, United States	82.25 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
9	Mercer Island, United States	81.45 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
10	Newton, United States	81.14 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
11	Saratoga, United States	81.11 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
12	Cambridge, United States	80.78 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
13	Ridgewood, United States	80.06 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
14	Upper Arlington, United States	79.85 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
15	Lafayette, United States	78.96 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
16	Manhattan Beach, United States	78.89 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
17	Westfield, United States	78.08 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
18	Ann Arbor, United States	77.91 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
19	Milton, United States	77.89 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
20	Sammamish, United States	77.06 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
21	Highland Park, United States	76.87 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
22	Boulder, United States	76.8 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
23	Davis, United States	76.78 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
24	Birmingham, United States	76.75 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
25	Chapel Hill, United States	76.59 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
26	Bainbridge Island, United States	76.36 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
27	Decatur, United States	76.32 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
28	Garden City, United States	75.95 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
29	Amherst Town, United States	75.56 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04
30	Hudson, United States	75.29 %	2026-07-04	Source Scope: place · Period: 2026-07-04

What the numbers say

University Park, United States leads at 90.85 %.
Hudson, United States sits at the other end with 75.29 %.
The middle of this ranking is 78.96 %, across 30 places that publish the metric.
The spread between first and last is 15.56 %.

Quick answer

What does US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share show?

University Park, United States has the highest residents with a bachelor's degree or higher of the 30 cities compared: 90.85 % (ACS median gross rent, 2026-07-04).

How this list is built

Every row is a published residents with a bachelor's degree or higher observation measured in %, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2026. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 20,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.

Rows: 30 places
Geographic grain: place
Observation period: 2026-07-04
Last checked: 2026-07-04
With an official source link: 30 of 30

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 37468b47300ed5f6f553d9ce1eeb747f]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/us-cities-highest-bachelors-share/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  title = {US cities with the highest bachelor’s-degree share},
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  date = {2026-10-16},
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