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Higher Education in Billings

Billings ranks T#67 of 134 US cities for higher education, with a Higher Education score of 50 — Fun. That puts it in the 51st percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Montana.

Higher Education score
50
Fun
National rank
T#67 of 134
In Montana
#1 of 1
Percentile
51st

The typical city scores 50 for higher education; Billings sits right at the median.

Billings has no higher education measurement yet, so this score is the index median placeholder (≈50), not a measured value. The composite Fun Score renormalises around the gap, so Billings’s headline number is unaffected.

How higher education is measured

Density of college and university students — the engine behind a college town.

Data sources: NCES Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) full-time-equivalent enrollment and US Census ACS age cohort data.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Billings

  1. #65 Long Beach, CA 52
  2. #66 Fort Worth, TX 51
  3. T#67 Billings, MT — this page 50
  4. #69 Nashville, TN 49
  5. #70 Anchorage, AK 48

See the full leaderboard — Best cities for higher education →

Top US cities for higher education

  1. #1 Fargo, ND 93
  2. T#2 Birmingham, AL 92
  3. T#2 Hartford, CT 92
  4. T#2 Providence, RI 92
  5. T#5 Bridgeport, CT 91

More about Billings

Billings scores 60 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: