Birmingham-Southern College Graduation 2013

Amanda Stanley, a Huntsville native, graduates from Birmingham-Southern College in May of 2013 at Bill Battle Coliseum on the BSC campus. Stanley is a triplet. Her sisters also graduated from Birmingham-Southern in 2013. (courtesy of Birmingham-Southern College)

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The Huntsville metro area, which includes Limestone County, claims the highest percentage of women over 25 with a college and/or advanced degree.

Across Alabama, 22.1 percent of women hold a Bachelor's degree or higher. It's 32.3 percent around Huntsville.

Scroll over the chart to see the percentages for the five largest metro areas.

The results, at least by city, are similar among men. When combining men and women, Huntsville accounts for 13.3 percent of the doctorate degrees in Alabama and just 8.8 percent of the population.

However, the results also reveal a statewide gap in terms of educational achievement in Alabama between men and women. That gap is greatest in Huntsville, and nearly disappears in Montgomery. In Tuscaloosa, women outperform men.

Here are the percentages side-by-side.