In a recent Portfolio.com
study that analyzed 200 of the country's largest metro areas for "strongest collective brainpower," the Twin Cities comes in 18th.
Number one is Boulder, Colorado while 200th is Merced, California, according to the magazine, which crunched numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Looking at data for post-secondary education and high-school dropout rates in various cities, Portfolio scored cities by "comparing the 2007 median income for all workers ($33,452) with the median income for those workers at a specified educational level," the article states.
The results show that it does indeed pay to have a college degree or two.