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America's Best Cities For Global Trade 2015

Fort Collins, CO

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Written by Haylle Sok

FORT COLLINS, Colorado
Population: 152,061
Unemployment: 3.8 percent
Leading Industries: Clean energy, Bio-science

If a workforce is a supply chain, Fort Collins has one of the best ones going. Local public schools rank high nationally; more than 80 percent of high school graduates enroll in college. Many attend local Colorado State, dubbed one of the nation’s most entrepreneurial universities. Not surprisingly, those students have in turn made the area a hotbed for tech startups while becoming much sought after talent for tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.