Fort Collins placed No. 5 on a list of most-educated cities in the nation, according to a study by Portfolio.com, a national business news site.
The study, which looked at the education levels of the residents of the nation’s 200 largest metro areas, ranked Boulder No. 1. According to the study, five out of six adults in Boulder or 82.5 percent have attended some level of college.
The top 10 cities on the list were: Boulder; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Washington, D.C.; Durham, N.C.; Fort Collins; Bridgeport-Stamford, Conn.; San Jose, Calif.; Boston; Madison, Wis.; San Francisco-Oakland.
The survey noted that smaller cities were prominent on the list. “We often associate larger cities as the centers of education and culture, and therefore epicenters for the country’s smartest people,” said J. Jennings Moss, editor of Portfolio.com, in releasing the results. “However, this study shows that smaller cities can attract some significant brain power. Of the top 10 smartest places, six of them have populations of less than 1 million people.”
Colorado and California were the only two states to have two cities in the top 10.