Spatial inequality in higher education in Washington

Geographic variation in educational attainment is often studied, but variation in access to higher education is much less well understood. Washington State is found to have unusually high access to community colleges, but rather low, and extremely uneven geographic access to four-year colleges and universities. The state, and especially the metropolitan core of Seattle, is highly dependent on migration of highly educated persons from the rest of the country and the world. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.