By Joel Kotkin and Mark Schill, Forbes Magazine, November 17, 2014
“For the most part, the top 10 on our list of the 51 largest metro areas is dominated by places with large concentrations of colleges, and those that long ago made the transition from industrial to information-based economies.”
1. Boston-Cambridge-Newton.
2. Pittsburgh.
3. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara.
4. Grand Rapids.
5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria.
6. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson.
7. Raleigh.
8. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward.
9. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue.
10. New York-Newark-Jersey City.
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