Subcategories included the number of residents with diplomas and various degrees; the number of residents with engineering, science or technology jobs; quality of local universities and the number of students at top-200 universities. The Beaumont metropolitan region, which also includes Orange and Port Arthur, fared poorly in educational attainment, finishing in the bottom five of three measures: percentage of residents with a bachelor's degree, percentage with a graduate degree and number of doctors per capita. Rather than define an area's education by the degrees it obtained and science and engineering jobs, as the Wallet Hub study inherently does, observers should note how well a region can support quality-of-life and business, Szuch said. [...] he said, area residents are educated enough to maintain an enormous petrochemical industry that continues to expand, as well as local theater, a symphony, a four-year university and three two-year colleges.