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This is a pretty interesting stat from this source:
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Massachusetts has the highest concentration (11.5 percent) of tech workers relative to
its overall employment base, which means citizens of the state are more likely to hold a
tech job relative to other industry sectors
I'm still confused about whether biotech counts as tech, though. That source seems to focus more on software, web development, IT, etc.
This is a pretty interesting stat from this source:
I'm still confused about whether biotech counts as tech, though. That source seems to focus more on software, web development, IT, etc.
My guess it does not focus on biotech.
BOS and PHL are emerging as leaders in that field.
I will say Tesla and Salesforce move to TX from CA is definitely noteworthy.
SF and the Bay Area has gotten so expensive. It is becoming harder and harder to attract talent.
Again though, I am not sure if this will all play well for TX. I know housing is already getting pricey there by southern standards, and this push will surely increase it even more.
Also most in the tech industry tend to be more progressive, and it might be hard to attract them to what is considered a conservative state.
I am curious to see how this will affect its housing market and what growing pains it will see.
For Texas being a Republican controlled state I am shocked to know that Texas property taxes are some of the highest in the nation. I say this, because high property taxes combined with higher housing costs, can make affordability a major issue.
I just am curious to see how this will affect infrastructure in the state and COL.
What Texas Universities are big in tech also? I know Texas has some notable Universities. But none stand out for Tech.
Stanford, MIT, CalTech and Carnegie Mellon are probably the four best in the USA.
UT Austin is top 10 in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (pretty much every engineering field actually), and is a top 10 business school and MBA program. How does that not stand out for Tech?
They have done this before and failed. One or two companies move to Texas then they are too far from the community and wind up going back to California.
I will say Tesla and Salesforce move to TX from CA is definitely noteworthy.
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When did Salesforce, or Tesla for that matter, move to TX from CA? I know Tesla is opening a factory and of course Musk has been pretty vocal about personally leaving the state, but it would be MUCH MUCH bigger news if either of those companies were actually uprooting from CA.
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They have done this before and failed. One or two companies move to Texas then they are too far from the community and wind up going back to California.
11 of the top 100 universities in the world are located in California, according to US News & World Report, versus just 1 in Texas and that's UTs flagship campus in Austin.
US News Global University Ranking 2021:
#1 Harvard
#2 MIT #3 Stanford
#4 UC Berkeley
#5 Oxford(UK)
#6 Columbia #7 Cal Tech
#8 U Washington
#9 Cambridge(UK)
#10 Johns Hopkins
#11 Princeton
#12 Yale #13 UC Los Angeles
#14 Penn #15-tie UC San Francisco
#15-tie U Chicago
#17-tie Michigan
#17-tie U Toronto
#19-tie U College, London
#19-tie Imperial College London #21 UC San Diego
#22 Cornell
#23 Duke
#24 Northwestern
#25 U Melbourne
#26 Swiss Federal Institue of Tech, Zurich
#27 U Sydney
#28 Tsinghua
#29 New York U
#30 U Edinburgh
#31 U British Columbia
#32 Natl U, Singapore
#33 Washington U, St Louis
#34-tie King's College, London
#34-tie U Copenhagen
#36-tie UNC-Chapel Hill
#36-tie U Queensland Australia
#38-tie Nanyang Tech U #38-tie UT Austin
#40 U Amsterdam
#41 U Wisconsin-Madison
#42 King Abdulaziz U
#43-tie Sorbonne
#43-tie U Pittsburgh
#45 OSU-Columbus
#46 U Munich
#47 U Minnesota-Twin Cities
#48-tie Catholic U Leuven
#48-tie Karolinska Institute
#48-tie Monash #56 UC Santa Barbara
#66 UC Davis
#70 USC
#78 UC Irvine
#81 UC Santa Cruz
This ranking differs from the US News undergrad ranking because it focuses on research, citations and the caliber of the faculty, whereas the undergrad ranking focuses a lot more on undergrad well being, which is cute too I suppose.
BOS and PHL are emerging as leaders in that field.
I will say Tesla and Salesforce move to TX from CA is definitely noteworthy.
SF and the Bay Area has gotten so expensive. It is becoming harder and harder to attract talent.
Again though, I am not sure if this will all play well for TX. I know housing is already getting pricey there by southern standards, and this push will surely increase it even more.
Also most in the tech industry tend to be more progressive, and it might be hard to attract them to what is considered a conservative state.
Didn't they just build like an 80 foot tower in SF? I wouldn't count that chicken just yet.
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