Colombia’s educative system has grew in the lasts decades, and the access
and coverage has reached higher levels but this development has been mainly in
bigger cities, and causing an agglomeration of graduates in the tertiary education
on these cities and the cities that are around them. The education is one of
the pillars of development in the countries and this process can only be fulfilled
with the presence of graduates in tertiary education in all the municipalities.
The purpose of this article is to test this hypothesis of agglomeration and intend
to see which factors that cause this phenomena, such as life quality, income
effects and security. Empirical evidence are derived from real data obtained by
DANE (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica) in the Census
from 2005 and a violence variable constructed with IEPRI’s (INSTITUTO DE
ESTUDIOS POL´ITICOS Y RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES) information
of political homicide. The understanding of this phenomena would be the
only way to stop it and maybe create a different dynamic in the choice of these
graduates of what city to work or even live.