Multiple Bay Area cities rank highly in WalletHub’s “Most & Least Educated Cities in America (2026)” ranking.
The report groups San Jose, Sunnyvale and Santa Clara together for the third-most educated city in America.
San Jose ranks fourth for the “Educational Attainment” category and third for the “Quality of Education & Attainment Gap.”
San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley rank sixth overall, placing eighth under “Educational Attainment” and seventh under “Quality of Education & Attainment Gap.”
Other California cities ranked within the top 150 include Vallejo, Sacramento, Santa Rosa and more. View the study at wallethub.com.