WORKFORCE, EDUCATION TRAINING AND WORKFORCE, TRAINING, COLLEGES HIGHER EDUCATION MAJOR UNIVERSITIES AND UNIVERSITIES A WIDE ARRAY OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES UNIVERSITY 2016 ENROLLMENT ATTRACT STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. The –Fort Worth region off ers 1 The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) 39,706 5 TEXAS A&M a variety of public and private school 2 University of North Texas (UNT) - Denton 37,979 UNIVERSITY - COMMERCE educational opportunities, with robust TEXAS 4 (CENTRAL PARK) 3 The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) 26,793 WEATHERFORD WOMAN’S programming in life sciences, engineering, COLLEGE 2 UNIVERSITY (WISE COUNTY) UNIVERSITY 4 Texas Woman’s University (TWU) 15,511 and the arts. The University of North OF NORTH TEXAS COLLIN COLLEGE 5 Texas A&M University (TAMU) - Commerce 12,385 Texas at Denton, the University of Texas (HEALTH NORTH CENTRAL EDUCATION 6 Southern Methodist University (SMU) 11,739 at Dallas, and the University of Texas TEXAS COLLEGE CENTER) COLLIN COLLEGE 7 Texas Christian University (TCU) 10,363 at Arlington are among Texas’ seven (PRESTON RIDGE) COLLIN COLLEGE 8 Dallas Baptist University (DBU) 5,156 “emerging research” universities and are AMBERTON (ALLEN) UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY 9 University of North Texas (UNT) - Dallas 3,030 currently expanding program capabilities OF NORTH (FRISCO) TEXAS - FRISCO and funding in an eff ort to become world- 10 Texas Wesleyan University 2,557 COLLIN COLLEGE 11 University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth 2,366 class “tier one” research institutions, (SPRING CREEK) NORTH CENTRAL which are nationally recognized for the TEXAS COLLEGE 12 (UD) 2,357 (FLOWER MOUND) COLLIN COLLEGE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES | TRAINING, (COURTYARD) highest levels of innovation and academic 13 UT Southwestern 2,277 DCCCD UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS excellence. UT Southwestern Medical (NORTH LAKE - ABILENE CHRISTIAN 14 Texas A&M University School of Law - Fort Worth 484 TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE UNIVERSITY DALLAS 3 AT DALLAS (NORTHPORT) NORTH) TEXAS A&M Center is among the nation’s best in AG EXTENSION 15 University of North Texas College of Law - Dallas 387

biology and biochemistry research, DCCCD LETOURNEAU (BROOKHAVEN) UNIVERSITY DCCCD boasting countless clinical breakthroughs (RICHLAND) DCCCD and innovations. DALLAS UNIVERSITY DCCCD (NORTH LAKE - COLLIN COLLEGE WEST) CHRISTIAN OF PHOENIX - (RICHLAND - COLLEGE DALLAS CAMPUS GARLAND) (ROCKWALL)

PARKER UNIVERSITY SOUTHERN ART INSTITUTE DCCCD METHODIST OF DALLAS TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE (NORTH UNIVERSITY (NORTHEAST) LAKE) (GARLAND) TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE UD TEXAS TECH SMU (NORTHWEST) 12 HEALTH SCIENCE 6 EVEREST UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DALLAS CENTER WEST COAST DCCCD UNIVERSITY UT SOUTHWESTERN (EASTFIELD) DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY WEATHERFORD 13 COLLEGE TEXAS (MINERAL WELLS) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON WOMAN’S TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE DCCCD UNIVERSITY ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY AT CITYSQUARE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH (NORTH LAKE - INSTITUTE TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE 15 BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY (TRINITY RIVER) TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE SOUTH) OF HEALTH CENTER SCIENCES DCCCD (EL CENTRO) 11 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS LAW (DALLAS) UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TEXAS A&M LAW DCCCD (BILL J. PRIEST) AT ARLINGTON (FORT WORTH) 14 DCCCD WEATHERFORD 10 ARLINGTON 1 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS (MOUNTAIN VIEW) COLLEGE TERRELL TEXAS BAPTIST AT ARLINGTON UNIVERSITY DCCCD TARLETON STATE SCHOOL OF WESLEYAN (EASTFIELD - SOUTHWEST 7 TARLETON UNIVERSITY 8 DALLAS PLEASANT GROVE) METROPLEX CENTER TEXAS CHRISTIAN STATE BAPTIST UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX - ARLINGTON SOUTHWESTERN CAMPUS BAPTIST TARRANT THEOLOGICAL COUNTY UNIVERSITY OF 9 SEMINARY COLLEGE NORTH TEXAS AT DALLAS (SOUTH) TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE (SOUTHEAST) DCCCD (CEDAR VALLEY) NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS

INSTITUTION 2016 ENROLLMENT

HILL COLLEGE (BURLESON) Dallas County Community College District 71,393 Tarrant County College District 55,468 Collin County Community College District 29,153 (MIDLOTHIAN) NAVARRO COLLEGE North Central Texas Community College District 9,433 (WAXAHACHIE) SOUTHWESTERN Navarro College 9,127 (GRANBURY) ASSEMBLIES OF GOD Trinity Valley Community College 6,950 SOUTHWESTERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY Weatherford College 5,607 DFW Total Community College Students 187,131

HILL COLLEGE (JOHNSON COUNTY) The Texas Workforce Commission provides funding for continuing education courses within the community college system. A total of Private University 10,678 students enrolled in CE courses in the districts and colleges listed above in Fall 2016. Public University HILL COLLEGE Community(GLEN ROSE) College

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Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering 66 Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology 4 Applied Mathematics 8 Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering 754 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 Engineering Physics 0 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology 190 Engineering Science 0 Biology, General 1,504 Engineering, General 63 Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology 23 Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering 21 Biomedical/Medical Engineering 125 Genetics 13 Biotechnology 12 Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences 150 Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences 92 Industrial Engineering 121 THE ECONOMY Chemistry 169 Information Science/Studies 685 Civil Engineering 157 Manufacturing Engineering 2 Computer and Information Sciences, General 1,422 Materials Engineering 65 ECONOMIC FORECAST Computer Engineering 379 Mathematics 388 Computer Programming 129 Mechanical Engineering 507 Computer Science 130 Microbiological Sciences and Immunology 27 GLOBAL TRADE

| TRAINING, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Computer Software and Media Applications 85 Neurobiology and Neurosciences 160 Computer Systems Analysis 113 Operations Research 68 ACCOLADES Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications 404 Physics 134 Computer/Information Technology Administration and 349 Physiology, Pathology and Related Sciences 23 Management Statistics 31 ECONOMIC METRO-TO-METRO COMPARISONS Construction Engineering 17 Systems Engineering 93 Data Processing 246 GRAND TOTAL 8,930

SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, COST OF DOING BUSINESS ACCOLADES CORPORATE BUSINESS CLIMATE COMPARISON U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT The 2016 Carnegie Classifi cation of Institutions of Higher Education lists three Texas had fi ve schools listed in the North Texas universities (UNT, UTA, UTD) belonging to the elite group of R-1: 2014 U.S. News & World Report’s top Doctoral Universities (Research 1 Universities). The institutions on the list, which 100 computer science grad schools. include MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale, are identifi ed as the most productive research institutions in the nation. WORKFORCE, AND TRAINING EDUCATION #9

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#40 Texas Research ALLIANCE #70 TEXAS RESEARCH ALLIANCE was established to increase research in the Dallas- Fort Worth Region through Industry-University Collaboration Its mission is to actively grow the base of research capacity and technology commercialization in North Texas by engaging industry, philanthropic, university, and state support to implement programs that increase research at our local institutions of higher #90 education and create economic benefi t for the region. Telecommunications, manufacturing, big data, and technologies that enable smart cities are a primary focus.

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