Highly Educated and Talented Workforce

• The University of Arizona (UA) is one of the nation’s top public research universities and is ranked by the National Science Foundation as America’s No. 1 university for research expenditures in the physical sciences; and the nation’s No. 21 institution among all public and private universities and colleges.
• Known for its exceptionally strong research and academic programs, the UA is one of only 62 members in the prestigious Association of American Universities.
• The UA’s Colleges of Agriculture, Science, and Engineering produced 1,952 graduates in 2007-2008. The UA is nationally recognized for interdisciplinary graduate programs in biomedical engineering, neuroscience, pharmacology and toxicology, cancer biology, applied mathematics, genetics and more.
• The UA’s College of Science, a national leader in Applied Bioscience programs, offers a Master’s Degree in Applied Bioscience.

• Pima Community College, the eighth-largest community college in the country, has an annual enrollment of more than 75,000 students and offers applied degree programs in bioscience topics.

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