Workforce
Key to San Francisco's continuing success as a center for the new talent-based, innovation economy is the outstanding level of educational attainment among its workforce. A full 16% of City residents hold graduate degrees, 40% of Bay Area residents have four-year degrees or higher, and two thirds have training beyond high school. An outstanding primary and secondary education system boasts an extensive network of public and private schools—there are more than 100 private and parochial schools in the City alone—that prepare students for the international economic environment in a dynamic multicultural setting with class sizes well below the California average. In addition, the Bay Area is home to more than 35 colleges and universities containing some of the world's most highly regarded graduate institutions which, with numerous federal and private research centers, represent the cutting-edge of development in technology and the life sciences.
Workforce Education
Forbes #1 Ranking in Education Attainment
- More than 15 colleges, universities and graduate schools
- Over two-thirds of Bay Area residents have training beyond high school
- More than 50% of residents have post-secondary degrees
- 16% have graduate degrees
- Third city in 2005 with the highest percentage of population with both a bachelor and a graduate degree (ACS, 2005)
The download links at right access current demographic information about San Francisco's workforce.