Ann Arbor named the most educated city in U.S.

Forbes magazine is reporting that Ann Arbor has been named the most educated city in America.

Ann Arbor placed just ahead of Raleigh and Durham, N.C., with an eclectic group also in the top 10, including Provo, Utah, Manchester, N.H., and Seattle. Boston, home of Harvard and MIT, somehow placed only 10^th. One surprise was Baltimore at No. 9.

Among the 10 least educated, Beaumont, Texas, was No. 1. Two other Texas cities made the list and an astounding five of the 10 were cities in California.

Forbes is following the lead of the financial site WalletHub, which took a look at the 150 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. and ranked them according to nine categories, including percentage of adult residents with a high school diploma, associate’s degree, graduate or professional degree, or above; number of doctors per capita; percentage of workers with jobs in “computer, engineering, and sciences fields;” quality of public schools and universities; and the number of students enrolled in the top 200 universities in the U.S., per capita.

Ann Arbor topped the list not only as the city with the best educated population overall, but as the city with the highest percentage of “college-experienced adults or associate’s degree holders,” the highest percentage of bachelor’s degree holders, and the highest percentage of graduate or professional degree holders.

Beaumont ranked as the least educated city in America because it has one of the lowest percentages of bachelor’s degree holders, as well as graduate or professional degree holders, and one of the lowest numbers of doctors per capita.