Salt Lake City edges out Provo in ranking of best college towns

BYU just lost to Utah – again. This time it wasn’t on the football field or the basketball court, but in the rankings of America’s best college towns.

Both Salt Lake City and Provo made the top 10. But the home of the Utes ranked ninth, and the home of the Cougars ranked 10th when personal finance website WalletHub.com compared more than 400 cities.

Salt Lake City ranked third on the list of mid-size cities (population 125,000-300,000); Provo ranked second among small cities (population less than 125,000).