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Commentary By Aaron M. Renn

Superstar Effect, Harvard Graduate Edition

The Harvard Crimson just published a piece on where the Harvard class of 2018 is going after graduation.

22% of them are going to New York (state I believe), 20% to Massachusetts, and 15% to California. The next biggest destination is Washington, DC at 4.9% (District of Columbia only?)

Another 9.1% are going international and 7.3% are undecided on where to go.

Add these numbers up and we see that 57% of Harvard grads are in NY, MA, or CA.

We also see that less than 22% of graduates definitively chose a US location other than NY, MA, CA, and DC.

Here’s the Crimson’s map, which doesn’t fully show the degree of concentration, but is interesting nevertheless.

 

Harvard, graduation

This piece appeared on NewGeography (originally at Urbanophile)

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Aaron M. Renn is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow him on Twitter here.

This piece originally appeared in NewGeography