MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — A new study finds Wisconsin has a “brain drain” among college educated adults.
“So we found that almost 60% of Wisconsin-born adults who are in their 30s and now live in another state have a bachelor’s or advanced degree, compared to only about 45% of those who were born in a different state but now live in Wisconsin and are in their 30s,” said Joe Peterangelo with Wisconsin Policy Forum.
That gap of 14.6% is the second largest in the nation behind North Dakota. Researchers determined this brain drain dates to at least 2009, when Wisconsin had the nation’s worst brain drain of college educated adults. Minnesota is the top destination for those college grads who leave, but Wisconsin gets more from Illinois than it loses to that state.