Workforce

• For the seventh straight year, Colorado ranked first in concentration of tech workers-AeA (former American Electronics Association), 2006
• Colorado ranked third of the 50 states in the percentage of scientists and engineers as a percent of labor force-Beacon Hill, 2006
• Colorado has the second most highly educated workforce in the nation-U.S. Census Bureau, 2005
• Colorado has the fourth highest concentration of scientists and engineers-National Science Board, 2006
• University of Denver's Daniels College of Business ranked eighth on the Wall Street Journal's 2005 ranking of regional business schools.
• The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder in one of the top ten "hot spots" for entrepreneurial education-Fortune Small Business, 2006
• Boulder ranked as the number one spot for brainpower in the nation-American City Business Journals, 2005