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Tampa doesn’t make the cut for young grads

Posted Sep 13, 2011 by Jeff Scullin

Updated Sep 13, 2011 at 11:49 AM

Tampa doesn’t rate very well in a new “best cities” list, this one rating the best places for recent college graduates to move.

The list, put together by CareerRookie and Apartments.com, is based on each city’s population of people between 20 and 24, the number of jobs requiring less than a year of experience and the average rent of a one-bedroom apartment, according to the Huffington Post.

So who made the list? Hartford-New Haven, Conn., tops the rankings, followed by Cleveland, Boston, Denver and Minneapolis. San Francisco, Washington, Philadelphia, Atlanta and St. Louis round out the Top 10.

Like most of these lists, this one is not very scientific. But it’s not the first time we’ve heard that the Tampa Bay area has a hard time attracting young professionals either.

In 2007, Forbes ranked Tampa last on its list of top destinations for young professionals. The magazine tracked where graduates from six top universities (Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Stanford, Rice and Northwestern) who moved out of state ended up 10 years after graduating.

So why is Tampa so unattractive to recent grads? The 2007 Forbes article cited the slightly older population here, the higher number of homes here that are investment properties and the small number of companies headquartered here.