A national website ranked Fargo as North Dakota's "Most Educated City" from an analysis of more than 2.5 million auto insurance applications.
Insurify.com's report examined statistics from its database of over 2.5 million car insurance applications to find the most educated cities. To apply for quotes, interested customers input personal and vehicle information, including their city of residence and the highest level of education. Using a proprietary scoring algorithm, analysts calculated an education score for each customer based on educational history and achievement. For high school students, the probability of advancing to college based on the current grade point average (GPA) was also factored into the calculation.
Then the website's data science team located the cities with the highest level of educational attainment in every state by assigning an average education score for each city from the information that was collected. Then the cities with the highest education score in each state were then selected.
Fargo came in first for North Dakota, while Rochester was selected for Minnesota and Rapid City as South Dakota's Most Educated City.
