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[DC] Why are The Bat Villains so Well Educated?

I was noticing how many of Batman's villains have either doctorates or are well educated is there something about Batman that makes highly intelligent people want to kill him or challenge him?
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Part of it is the cruel irony of their origins. Dr Victor Fries was working on cryogenic freezing when his experiment was sabotaged by his employer, turning him into Mr Freeze; it's unlikely anyone else who wasn't as educated would have been in his position. Kirk Langstrom was experimenting with genetic manipulation when he accidentally turned himself into Man-bat. Harley Quinn came about because she was a qualified (but naive) therapist who wanted to try and cure the Joker. 

Many of the rogues wound up becoming the villains we know them as due to their (sometimes dangerous) experiments that lesser qualified (and slightly more sane) individuals might not have attempted.

Another point that can't be ignored, *there's likely something in the water*. In many incarnations of the Batman universe, there's naturally occurring Lazarus Pits underneath Gotham, and the toxins leeching into the groundwater likely make everyone just slightly crazy. Sometimes the city is under a very powerful curse that drives people slightly toward madness. Perhaps that slight push is enough to push more people toward villainy, but the more educated and socially mobile villains are the more likely ones to make a name for themselves.