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The previous KDnuggets Poll asked:
What is your highest education level?
As expected, data miners and analytics professionals who read KDnuggets are quite well educated,
with 32% having Ph.D. and 86% having at least MS or another graduate degree.
Of the 259 respondents, 23% were students. The breakdown is in the table below.
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What is your highest education level? | |
| PhD in CS/Math/Stats (52) |  20.1% |
| PhD in another field (30) | 11.6% |
| MBA (15) | 5.8% |
| MD/JD or other advanced graduate degree (7) | 2.7% |
| MA/MS (119) | 45.9% |
| BA/BS (28) | 10.8% |
| less than a BA (8) | 3.1% |
Regional breakdown shows that Middle East and AU/NZ have the highest percentage of PhDs.
Here are full results of
KDnuggets 2011 Poll: What is your highest education level?