The Tri-State metro-region benefits from over 200 post-secondary education and training institutions, both publicly and privately funded, that enrol over 660 000 students each year and graduate 140 000 annually. The Chicago Tri-State metro-region’s workforce is, on average, well trained (Figure 4). Educational attainment is above the national average, indeed, of the 20 most populous metro-regions in the United States, the Tri-State region ranks fourth in educational attainment ,with only Boston (37%), New York (30%) and Atlanta (31%) boasting higher percentages (US Census Bureau, 2009a).