Is this NC city really among the country’s best college towns? This report says so.

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A popular tourist destination in North Carolina is among the best college towns in America, according to a new report.

Preply, an online learning platform, ranked Asheville as the ninth best small college town in the nation. The city is home to UNC-Asheville, which has about 3,300 students. To rank each college town, Preply compared them across three categories: wallet friendliness, social environment and economic opportunity. Each category accounted for a third of the city’s overall ranking.

Out of 199 college towns included in the report, Asheville received its lowest marks for wallet friendliness, coming in at No. 80. The score was calculated based on factors such as the cost of a meal at an inexpensive restaurant, the rent per month for a one-bedroom apartment in the city center and the cost of a beer.

The average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Asheville is $2,100, and the average cost of a beer in the city is $4.75, according to the report.

The average monthly salary in Asheville is $3,480, according to the report.

Notably absent from the list were any of North Carolina’s larger college towns, such as Durham, Raleigh and Winston-Salem.

Here are the 10 best college towns in America, according to Preply:

1. Ann Arbor, Michigan
2. St. Charles, Missouri
3. Newark, Delaware
4. La Crosse, Wisconsin
5. Grand Forks, North Dakota
6. Rochester, Minnesota
7. Clemson, South Carolina
8. West Lafayette, Indiana
9. Asheville, North Carolina
10. Auburn, Alabama