November 10, 2006 12:23 PM

Should I stay or should I go?
Posted by Douglas Eisenhartat 12:23 PM

That's the question that thousands of Greater Boston college seniors ask themselves each year as they approach graduation.

Now, some local business groups are making an effort to keep these seniors around:

. . .[T]he Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, . . .this week is sponsoring its second annual Hub Crawl, a series of meetings between local students and executives from top local finance firms.

Half of all college students in the Boston area leave after graduation, according to a 2003 chamber study, and 15.8 percent of the area's 20- to 34-year-olds left between 1990 and 2000, a "brain drain" that became the catalyst for the program, the goal of which is to keep as many students here after graduation as possible.