Top College Towns For Jobs

Forbes by Matt Woolsey | May. 20, 2009 (Special Report)

Research universities tend to be great environments for business, as they’re flush with cheap, highly talented labor (recent grads), and the massive research and development budgets universities have. Plenty of the world’s top companies, including Dell ( DELL - news - people ), Cisco Systems ( CSCO - news - people ) and Google ( GOOG - news - people ), began in university settings. Full Story »

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