We recently released our rankings of top places to live for young college graduates seeking jobs. Our director of research and education, Rosalind Greenstein, provides some enlightening commentary on the top destinations in this interview with Textbooks.com, published on Thursday.

College towns, she noted, came up big in the rankings of small metro areas as places where Millennials can find economic strength.

“’The anchor institution – eds and meds, as they say – is a big part of the story with these smaller cities,’ Greenstein suggests. ‘More and more, universities are leveraging their research capacity with private sector spinoffs. So what you’re seeing in Iowa City – and Ann Arbor… are engineering and technology partnerships with private companies, and more start-ups that are attractive to young people.’”

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