Awesome Washington DC is the Third Brainy City In America

On the eve of Awesome DC birthday, Portfolio Magazine ranked 200 cities in the US including our Awesome Washington DC in order of relative brainpower

Using new American Community Survey data along with their full methodology, the magazine assessed the average level of higher education obtained by the residents of 200 cities, coupled with their relative earning power of adults who live in them.

The two cities that beat us to that are Boulder, Colo., home of the University of Colorado, and Ann Arbor, Mich., home of the University of Michigan. Washington, D.C. became third. Given, we got some of the best universities in the world here in DC including Georgetown University and George Washington University, I am surprised we didn’t become number 1.

Porfolio’s survey focused on the 200 largest metro areas in America, the largest being New York City and the smallest Burlington, Vt.

Here is the complete list in pdf.

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