Coachella Valley Region Economic Development Strategy

Tables 7-8 on the following pages provide education-related data from the ACS. Some of the data highlights include the following:

• Riverside County (25.1%) has a lower share of the population achieving a Bachelor’s degree or higher in comparison to most of surrounding benchmark counties, with the exceptions of Imperial County (16.1%) and San Bernardino County (22.9%). • In terms of the five Riverside County subregions, the Southwest subregion (29.6%) has the highest share of the population attaining a Bachelor’s degree or higher. Figure 11 on the following page illustrates that, among residents with a Bachelor’s degree or higher, the highest percentage have received a Bachelor’s degree in Science and Engineering fields as their first major in Riverside County. However, in comparison to the other counties, Riverside County has the lowest share of the population (34.4%) with Bachelor’s degrees in Science and Engineering- related fields.

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