What Does the Fargo-Moorhead Community Have to Offer?
With a population of more than 170,000, the Fargo-Moorhead area community is the largest metropolitan area between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Spokane, Washington. Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN are on the Minnesota/North Dakota border approximately 250 miles northwest of Minneapolis/St. Paul and 250 miles south of Winnipeg at the juncture of Interstates 94 and 29. Fargo-Moorhead is an educational center with four major higher education institutions in the area (MSU Moorhead, Concordia College, North Dakota State University, and Minnesota State Community and Technical College Moorhead) together enrolling over 20,000 students. In addition, the area school systems are some of the best in the region and the F-M area is a strong regional commercial and health care center, with a growing presence in the high tech sector. More dollars proportionately are spent on supporting the arts in the F-M than anywhere else in the nation. The cities offer the F-M symphony, theaters, dance companies and museums