Davis CA nerd power

I often tell prospective Davis home buyers that we’re one of the most highly educated cities in the U.S.  Years ago we ranked second on the list of per capita graduate degrees to Chapel Hill, NC.  Here is Money Magazine’s recent top 25 list for brainiest cities for 2006, and wouldn’t you know it, we take the silver again.

Here are the cities with the highest percentage of residents with graduate degrees.
Rank	City	% residents with graduate degrees
1	Arlington, VA	35.7%
2	Davis, CA	34.6%
3	Brookline, MA	32.5%
4	Evanston, IL	31.2%
5	Bloomington, IN	31.2%
6	Towson, MD	31.2%
7	Oak Park, IL	29.1%
8	Bethesda, MD	29.1%
9	Alexandria, VA	29.0%
10	West Hartford, CT	28.9%
11	College Station, TX	27.7%
12	Ames, IA	27.5%
13	Columbia, MO	27.5%
14	Iowa City, IA	27.4%
15	Newton, MA	26.9%
16	Cambridge, MA	26.3%
17	Corvallis, OR	25.7%
18	Palo Alto, CA	25.4%
19	Berkeley, CA	24.5%
20	Lawrence, KS	24.3%
21	Champaign, IL	24.1%
22	Irvine, CA	24.0%
23	Santa Monica, CA	23.8
24	Catalina Foothills, AZ	23.7%
25	Gainesville, FL	23.7%

Champaign, IL made the cut at #21, and it is interestingly among the U.S. cities with the highest beer consumption, I believe. Probably correlates with my alma mater, U. of I., having the largest greek system in the country.