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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 4832414" data-attributes="member: 120286">Education (Indians in USA) Indian Americans have the highest educational qualifications of all national origin groups in the United States. According to the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, there are close to 35,000 Indian American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician" target="_blank">doctors</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_American#cite_note-13" target="_blank">[14]</a>. According to the 2000 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Census" target="_blank">census</a>, about 64% of Indian Americans have attained a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" target="_blank">Bachelor's degree</a> or more.<a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/censr-17.pdf" target="_blank">[5]</a>(compared to 28% nationally, and 44% average for all Asian American groups). Almost 40% of all Indians have a master’s, doctorate or other professional degree, which is five times the national average. (Source: The Indian American Centre for Political Awareness.) These high levels of education have enabled Indian Americans to become a productive segment of the American population, with 72.3% participating in the U.S. work force, of which 57.7% are employed in managerial and professional specialties.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_American#cite_note-14" target="_blank">[15]</a></blockquote>

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