Amazon HQ2 Proposal

Education Profiles Fewmajor metropolitan regions outside of Southern California have access to the talent Amazon will require to quickly meet its workforce needs. Southern California nearly 321,873 undergraduate students and 80,394 graduate students at the following non R-1 universities and colleges that offer degrees in Engineering/Computer

Science across Southern California, many of which are recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).

is second in the nation in graduating students with technical degrees behind New York and it is first in the nation in graduating technical PhDs. Riverside County offers Amazon the ability to immediately staff its new headquarters in a culturally vibrant and affordable location while drawing froman ethnically diverse, highly skilled talent pool in Southern California. In 2016, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties’ (known locally as the “Inland Empire” or IE) universities granted nearly 650 undergraduate degrees in Engineering/ Computer Science, a subset of 6,500 such degrees earned at all public Southern California universities. In addition to education, universities classified as “R1: Doctoral Universities—Highest Research Activity” (R1) in Southern California now spend nearly than $4 billion each year on research. The potential for Amazon to partner with universities for talent recruitment, internships, and sponsored research is virtually limitless. Within 95miles of the Inland Empire, Amazon HQ2 would have access to universities conducting nearly $4 billion annually in research and development, more than 321,873 undergraduates, andmore than 80,394 graduate students.

Graduate Students 2016

Annual R&D Expenditures

Institution Undergraduate Students 2016

University of California, Riverside University of California, Irvine California Institute of Technology University of Southern California University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego

19,779

3,122

$144,511,000

27,176

5,420

$329,798,000

979

1,261

$374,424,000

19,000

25,000

$691,031,000

30,873

12,323

$1,021,227,000

28,127

5,784

$1,180,563,000

Figure 1. R1 Universities in Southern California

Additionally, Amazon HQ2 would have close access to

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