San Diego Ranks Among Top 8 U.S. Markets for Life Sciences Talent

San Diego ranked among the top eight markets in CBRE’s annual U.S. Life Sciences Talent Trends report. According to the CBRE report, San Diego’s life sciences biopharma R&D subsector ranks seventh nationally with 17,240 employees, and the city ranks fourth among the Top 25 markets for the number of core life sciences R&D occupations and third among the density of core life science R&D occupations.

“The importance of San Diego in the life sciences industry is underscored by our capacity to host a similar amount of core life sciences researchers as the much larger markets do,” said Ted Jacobs, vice chairman at CBRE. “Our market has evolved into a major player in the life science industry, and that translates to our universities, where they are offering more specialty degrees in their academic programs than graduates leaving with only general science degrees.”

Supporting the long-term vibrancy of San Diego’s life sciences industry is its leading educational institutions, notably the University of California, San Diego, which underpins San Diego as a top five market for graduating new talent with expertise in cell-cellular biology and anatomical sciences and biological-biosystems engineering.