In the San Francisco Chronicle today Tom Abate writes - S.F. third in U.S. in higher degrees / Washington, D.C., Seattle residents take two top spots.
...The Census report, based on a 2002 survey and issued Wednesday, found that 18.5 percent of San Franciscans over age 25 hold postgraduate or professional degrees. In Seattle, the comparable figure is 19.3 percent. In the nation's capital, 23.6 percent of people over 25 have postgraduate credentials...
Sean Randolph, president of the Bay Area Economic Forum, said his group's surveys suggest that when the entire nine-county area is analyzed as an economic unit, it still beats competing regions in both numbers and percentages of scientists, engineers and professionals.
"My sense of it is that we are highly competitive and still set the standard in terms of knowledge workers,'' Randolph said...
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