by Rod Williams, July 19, 2025- A new study examined the most promising locations to find work for recent college graduates. The study examined affordability, wages, and hiring activity. They then weighed hiring rates for jobs that typically require a degree against affordability-adjusted salaries in each city to devise a single, overall ranking. Nashville had a combined percentile rank of 89, making Nashville the seventh best metro area for job-seeking recent college graduates.
The conclusion of the study was that often, the best job prospects did not lie in the bigger, glitzier cities but in second-tier Metro areas. An area that pays higher wages may have those wages diminished by a much higher cost of living. Also, some areas with decent affordability and good entry-level wages may have few job openings. The higher-ranked cities have a higher-than-usual concentration of technology, health, and financial firms.
To those of us who have called Nashville home for a long time and are shocked by the cost of housing, compared to other Metro areas with good employment opportunities, Nashville is relatively affordable.
Below is the list of the top ten metro areas:
Other cities of interest to me and their ranking are as follows: Memphis at 27th place, Atlanta 42nd place, and New Orleans 46th. Only 55 metro areas were included in the list, and other Tennessee metro areas were not ranked.
The worst ranked metro areas were Portland, OR-WA; Hartford, CT; Riverside, CA; and the worst ranked was Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC.
To read the Wall Street Journal story on this topic, follow this link. To see the full research report, follow this link.
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