My fair city is #1.
I can pretty much claim to have grown up, lived or worked in the top 3. Therefore, I'm pretty sure I can lay claim to their place on this list. I may not be the most "educated" man, but I sure can fake it well and I think that's due to being surrounded by so much academia all my life.
Only one city from Jersey is on the list but then again most cities in Jersey are pretty bad off overall. Camden, Newark, Atlantic City and Paterson aren't really places where education thrives.
Fresno isn't at the bottom, but it's close. I always look up Fresno on such charts because it's the center of contempt for both Los Angeles and the Bay Area. When their respective SCA kingdoms compete each year, the loser gets Fresno as part of its turf.