Pennsylvania's workforce is highly skilled and well-educated.
- Pennsylvania's workforce numbers 6,299,000, and 82% have earned at least a high school degree.
- Pennsylvania has the nation's 3rd-largest number of colleges and universities in the United States. (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Almost 3 out of every 4 of PA's 2001 high school graduates went on to college -- well above the national rate of 62%. (National Center for Education Statistics)
- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ranks 4th nationally overall and also 4th as a top research school. (US news and World Report 2005)
- US News and World Report rated the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania the #1 undergraduate business program in 2005.
- The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, located in Pittsburgh, consistently ranks among the top business schools in the world, including its latest ranking as #2 in the world in 2004 by The Wall Street Journal.
