| Less than one to two hours drive from the Park is an existing "catchment area" of skilled labor, which could be drawn from over 100 colleges and universities--not including those in Metro Manila--located within the Province of Nueva Ecija and the neighboring provinces of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Pampanga and Bulacan. Within these five (5) provinces comprising the Park's initial "catchment area" of skilled labor, there are over 120,000 students enrolled in college and over 20,000 students graduating each year with a four-year college degree. The following tables illustrate a subset of the colleges and universities within the existing "catchment area" by province. |