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Colorado and Colorado Springs Rankings
Colorado Springs ranked 13th in Expansion Managements’ mid-sized metropolitans where companies tend to grow best. (10/07)
Colorado Springs ranked 11th in Computerworld’s America’s techiest cities. Colorado Springs has 12,511 workers in the IT field or 4.3% of the workforce. (10/07)
Colorado Springs ranked in the top 10 cities for people who read or contribute to blogs. Research found that bloggers are more advanced online than your average Internet user, and more tech savvy overall. (10/07)
Colorado Springs ranked 1st by Forbes.com for America’s Most Pet-Friendly city. Generous public space, ample veterinary care and wealth of pet-friendly retailers were all included in the study. (10/07)
Colorado Springs ranked 14th best location for those with a security clearance to find a job according to ClearanceJobs.com. Reasons cited included the large number of military bases as well as defense and aerospace contactors operating in Colorado Springs. (09/30)
Colorado Springs ranked in the top 25 cities in RelocateAmerica.com’s “Top 25 Places to Live, to go to School 2007”. The list recognizes communities with strong support and spirit for their local schools, high parental involvement, strong academic achievement and performance, caring faculty and staff and successful extracurricular programs with opportunities for children to explore and excel in many areas of interest. (09/07)
The undergraduate engineering program at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is among the best in the nation, according to the editors of U.S. News and World Report. In the 2008 college rankings edition, “America’s Best Colleges,” released August 20, the magazine’s editors ranked the UCCS undergraduate engineering program 9th in the nation among public engineering schools offering bachelor’s or master’s degrees. The magazine’s editors ranked all of UCCS 10th among public Western universities. (08/07)
Colorado ranked 11th in high-exports nationally, according to American Electronics Association. From 2006 to 2007, Colorado’s high-tech exports grew by 16 percent, at total of $592 million. (07/07)
El Paso County ranked in the top 20 for Midsize Counties for Recruitment & Attraction by Expansion Magazine. Rankings were based on the number of business establishments (headquarters, subsidiaries, independents) that relocated to another market during the most recent 8-year period and still survive today and the numbers of companies opened during the most recent 8-year period and still survive today, as a percent of all business establishments in the market. (06/07)
Colorado Springs ranked 8th for safest driving city by Researchers with Allstate Insurance Company. The report analyzed two years of internal crash data to calculate the chance that drivers in 200 of the nation's most populated cities would be involved in an accident. (06/07)
Colorado Springs ranked 1st in the United States as the most dog-friendly city according to Men's Health magazine. Rankings were based on seven categories, including pet stores per capita, lowest incident of heartworm, number of boarding and day care facilities for pets, number of dog parks and veterinarian practices. (06/07)
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