After college, are big cities better than small ones?

Another wave of fresh graduates will finish their college life and step into society as a new year is unfolding.

According to the Ministry of Education, the number of fresh graduates from colleges and universities in 2017 will climb to 7.95 million, an increase of 300,000 compared with 2016. With the growing number of graduates comes fierce competition in the job market, and where to start a career has always been a question for young job hunters.

In December 2016, the Center for China and Globalization and MyCOS, a company specializing in higher education management data analytics, published a ranking of graduates' preferred cities based on nonmaterial attractiveness.