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CHICAGO – April 29, 2008 –
This spring, thousands of soon-to-be college graduates are planning to relocate. With the world as their oyster, choosing the best place to settle down can be a tough decision. To make the decision a little easier, Apartments.com, working in conjunction with CBcampus.com, CareerBuilder.com’s college job search site, is getting real by providing the top ten best cities for recent college graduates to live.
This information comes just in time for soon-to-be graduates to make the final call for entries for the “What’s Your FQ?” Sweepstakes (www.whatsyourfq.com) where one lucky winner will walk away with the break of a lifetime—including free rent for a year, a Career Fast-Track Pack from CBcampus.com and $10,000 in cold, hard cash. Entries will be accepted until midnight on May 4, 2008.
“In light of the current economy, job availability and the cost of living are among the most pressing concerns on the minds of new college graduates,” said Tammy Kotula, public relations and promotions manager at Apartments.com. “To give them a leg up as they enter the ‘real world,’ Apartments.com is not only giving one lucky graduate the break of lifetime with the “What’s Your FQ?” Sweepstakes, but is also painting a real-world picture of both the job market and living expenses in the cities that young adults tend to migrate after college.”
With the “Top 10 Best Cities for Recent College Graduates” list, Apartments.com and CBcampus.com, have done the legwork for young professionals to begin their new lives with confidence, stemming from knowledge of entry-level job openings, rental prices for one-bedroom
apartments and large resident populations of young adults in their early 20s.
Top 10 Best Cities for Recent
College Graduates |
Average Rent for a One Bedroom Apartment |
1. Philadelphia |
$962 |
2. Boston |
$1,343 |
3. New York |
$1,520 |
4. Phoenix |
$741 |
5. Chicago |
$1,029 |
6. Dallas-Fort Worth |
$755 |
7. Los Angeles |
$1,435 |
8. Houston |
$778 |
9. Detroit |
$699 |
10. Atlanta |
$773 |
IQ and EQ scores have become essential for measuring personal development, and the “What’s Your FQ?” Sweepstakes promises nothing less for pending graduates by revealing if they have what it takes to make it after graduation.
New graduates looking for additional resources to help plan their move can visit www.WhatsYourFQ.com to access searchable comprehensive national databases of apartments and jobs and insider tips and informative articles on how to transition to post-college living with ease.
The “Top 10 Best Cities for Recent College Graduates” research was based on ranking the top U.S. cities with the highest concentration of young adults (age 20 – 24) from the U.S. Census Bureau (2006), inventory of jobs requiring less than one year of experience from CBcampus.com (2008) and the average cost of rent for a one bedroom apartment from Apartments.com (2008).
About Apartments.com
Apartments.com is the most visited national apartment Internet listing subscription service with more than 50,000 unique addresses representing more than three million rental units from managed properties, newspaper classifieds and for-rent-by-owner properties. With personalized searches, highly visual ads featuring 360-degree virtual tours, professional photography, and comprehensive community listings, Apartments.com makes it possible for renters to access apartment rental inventory from across town or across the country. Leads from highly qualified, ready-to-rent prospects are delivered to Apartments.com customers, increasing closure rates and decreasing the average cost of leasing an apartment. The site's foundation of solid partnerships with the local newspaper and television station Web sites of more than 10,000 newspaper affiliate and strategic partners across the country include Yahoo! Real Estate, the Chicago Tribune (www.chicagotribune.com), The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com) and the Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com). Apartments.com is a division of Chicago-based Classified Ventures, LLC.
About CBcampus.com
CBcampus.com is a division of CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s largest job site with more than 23 million unique visitors and over 1.6 million jobs. College students and alumni can quickly target job and internship opportunities for their experience-level from the nation’s top employers. They can also post resumes, get the latest news on companies and industries, sign up for automatic job alerts, view local career fairs and tap into advice on everything from writing resumes to on-the-job success. For more information, visit CBcampus.com.
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