Yea, there may be more colleges than normal but man, we are talking percentages of the entire city here.
No matter how many colleges there are, that still could not impact the percentages for such a large city. That table is saying that 10% + of the entire city has Masters, Professional or Doctors degrees which is higher than the national average. My opinion is that a larger than normal number of university professors in town or whatever still could not cause that to be 2 % higher than the average.
you're right, i was just thinking that with gov't and colleges it would be higher...
I checked and Boston (University/Big. Govt. city) is at 15% with the Nat'l Avg. around 9%, so 10% really isn't that outta wack...
however, I have a strong hunch that the 10% population with advanced degrees tend to live...in the suburbs....
NO was a lovely city. (Yeah, I know ... but the white guys with degrees could afford to live in the good parts.)
My co-worker is one of those professor-dudes. (He's fine and his house survived (he's a couple of blocks outside of the Quarter), but his race car is under 7 feet of water right now! Although, at least he knows exactly where it is and that it won't be looted or "commandeered!") He might not ever be able to return to live in the city he loves, and that's just depressing.
Anyhow, NO was a unique American treasure - it doesn't surprise me at all that people who could afford to live there chose to live there. If I were a handsomely-paid college professor, I might just have chosen to live there, too. Alas, I am but a lowly web-slinger and must continue to live in sunny Florida. Sigh ...