What are the best cities for jobs, social life and affordable living after college graduation?

With a diploma in hand, where’s your post-college life going to take you?

If you’re looking for a city with good jobs, a vibrant social scene that’s also affordable, you might not look much further than your alma mater, according to a ranking from rental platform Apartment List given exclusively to USA TODAY.

Many of the top 10 cities that received A-minus to A-plus grades were also home to sizable colleges, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, North Carolina State University and Texas Tech University.

“A lot of cities we found that were best for college grads were pretty good college towns themselves,” says Igor Popov, chief economist at Apartment List. “You might think people want something entirely different, but people could be happy to stay there in their 20s and early 30s and still do well economically.”

Five other cities also received A- grades, but their overall scores were lower than the top 10. Those cities were Austin, Texas; Cincinnati; Denver; Nashville, Tennessee; and Washington, D.C.

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Apartment List looked at 100 cities and ranked them based on the city’s population of young adults; unemployment rate of those with bachelor’s degrees or higher; affordability of rents; nightlife and recreational activities; and ease of meeting new people.

Apartment List used Census data, its own rental data and results from its annual survey of 24,000 renters.

Here are the top 10.

Madison, Wisconsin

Overall grade: A+

Population grade: A+

Unemployment grade: A+

Affordability grade: B+

Activity grade: A+

Social grade: A+

Lincoln, Nebraska

Overall grade: A

Population grade: A-

Unemployment grade: A+

Affordability grade: A

Activity grade: B+

Social grade: A+

Minneapolis

Overall grade: A

Population grade: A+

Unemployment grade: A

Affordability grade: B

Activity grade: A+

Social grade: A+

Arlington, Virginia

Overall grade: A

Population grade: A+

Unemployment grade: A+

Affordability grade: D

Activity grade: A+

Social grade: A+

Pittsburgh

Overall grade: A-

Population grade: A+

Unemployment grade: A

Affordability grade: B+

Activity grade: B+

Social grade: A-

Columbus, Ohio

Overall grade: A-

Population grade: A

Unemployment grade: A+

Affordability grade: A-

Activity grade: B+

Social grade: B+

Boise, Idaho

Overall grade: A-

Population grade: C

Unemployment grade: A-

Affordability grade: A

Activity grade: A+

Social grade: A

Raleigh, North Carolina

Overall grade: A-

Population grade: A-

Unemployment grade: A

Affordability grade: C

Activity grade: A+

Social grade: A+

Lubbock, Texas

Overall grade: A-

Population grade: A

Unemployment grade: A-

Affordability grade: A+

Activity grade: B-

Social grade: B+

Norfolk, Virginia

Overall grade: A-

Population grade: A+

Unemployment grade: B-

Affordability grade: B+

Activity grade: A-

Social grade: A