Benefits August 31, 2011
Hartford-New Haven Tops List of Best Cities for Recent Grads
August 31, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CareerBuilder reports 46% of employers plan to hire recent college graduates this year—up from 44% in 2010.
Reported by Rebecca Moore
Apartments.com and CareerRookie.com—CareerBuilder’s college job search Web site—have revealed their fourth annual “Top 10 Best Cities for Recent College Graduates” list. Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut, tops this year’s list with an average rent for a one bedroom apartment of $1,047.
The rest of the top 10 include:
- Cleveland ($695)
- Boston ($1,625)
- Denver ($994)
- Minneapolis ($941)
- San Francisco ($1,560)
- Washington D.C. ($1,679)
- Philadelphia ($1,068)
- Atlanta ($813)
- St. Louis ($826)
The “Top 10 Best Cities for Recent College Graduates” list was based on the ranking of top U.S. cities with the highest concentration of young adults (age 20 to 24) from the U.S. Census Bureau (2010), inventory of jobs requiring less than one year of experience from CareerRookie.com (March, 2011), and the average cost of rent for a one bedroom apartment from Apartments.com (March, 2011).