<p>Raleigh and Durham certainly did well, but if smaller communities were included, Chapel Hill would rank higher than both. It has the largest percentage of well-educated people of any municipality in North Carolina, a top university, a large number of doctors, and some of the top public schools in the state.</p>
<p>I am guessing that the more educated (the more PhDs per capita)the town is, the harder it is for a fresh grad with just a BA/BS to get a job.</p>
<p>“How many locals feel any ownership of private U’s?”</p>
<p>People in Syracuse do. </p>
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<p>All these highly educated cities are because there’s a major prominent university in the city (or in a couple cases, because of the tech industry - where there will be no lack of jobs). So yes, there won’t be many jobs in the city, but no one graduating is going to work there. No one graduates from Michigan and then works in Ann Arbor. Not even all that many get jobs in Michigan. </p>
<p>I think this list would come out differently if the entire metro region were considered for each. Some cities would be quite “modified” by their surrounding 'burbs or close-in towns. FWIW. </p>
<p>^ The study was done using MSA, so the suburbs and close in towns are included. </p>