Austin is the anchor city of the Austin-Round Rock-San
Marcos MSA, which had a Gross Domestic Product of $86 billion in 2010. Austin
is considered to be a major center for high tech. Thousands of graduates each
year from the engineering and computer science programs at the University of
Texas at Austin provide a steady source of employees that help to fuel Austin's
technology and defense industry sectors. The region's rapid growth has led
Forbes to rank the Austin metropolitan area number one among all big cities for
jobs for 2012 in their annual survey and WSJ Market watch to rank the area
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