Pinellas Park, FL (population: 46,971) has eleven microsoft certification schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. University of South Florida, the highest ranked school in this group with a microsoft certification program, has a total student population of 40,022. It is the 138th highest ranked school in the USA and the 3rd highest in the state of Florida (#1 is University of Miami).
Microsoft Certification students from Pinellas Park schools who go on to become microsoft specialists, windows specialists, microsoft technologists and technicians, microsoft certified professionals, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 385,200 people working as computer software engineers, systems software alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $96,620. Also, Computer software engineers, applications make on average $90,170 per year and there are about 495,500 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area alone, there are 4,020 employed computer software engineers, applications earning an average salary of $86,900. Computer software engineers, systems software in this area earn $82,900/yr and there are 2,070 employed.
Pinellas Park lies in Pinellas county, which is one of the 49 counties in Florida. Overall, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area has 1,131,330 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $20/hr average worker wage, and a $40,590 average annual salary. Thus, about 2 out of every 1000 jobs in Pinellas Park are held by computer software engineers, systems software, and 4/1000 are held by computer software engineers, applications.
Of the 11 microsoft certification schools with a 100-mile radius of Pinellas Park, only 6 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Career Institute of Florida comes out as the most expensive ($20,856/yr) for microsoft certification students, with Lake-Sumter Community College as the lowest, reported at only $2,794/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Pinellas Park |
| Largo | FL | 71,859 | 6 | 16.9483 | 118 | 5.5 miles |
| Saint Petersburg | FL | 243,829 | 7 | 28.1391 | 139 | 8.1 miles |
| Clearwater | FL | 104,782 | 7 | 23.3042 | 195 | 9.1 miles |
| Tampa | FL | 351,091 | 21 | 26.1721 | 513 | 15.7 miles |
| Brandon | FL | 91,683 | 0 | - | 0 | 26.1 miles |
| New Port Richey | FL | - | 2 | 22.9424 | 46 | 26.6 miles |
| Bradenton | FL | 54,123 | 4 | 19.43 | 124 | 26.8 miles |
| Sarasota | FL | 52,304 | 9 | 24.2015 | 68 | 37.3 miles |
| Saint Leo | FL | - | 1 | 24.1963 | 100 | 43.0 miles |
| Lakeland | FL | 95,327 | 5 | 27.1628 | 186 | 47.5 miles |
| North Port | FL | 58,777 | 0 | - | 0 | 64.5 miles |
| Port Charlotte | FL | 49,392 | 1 | 23.17 | 24 | 70.6 miles |
| Inverness | FL | - | 1 | 21.0939 | 28 | 71.4 miles |
| Kissimmee | FL | 64,069 | 3 | 25.1875 | 43 | 85.0 miles |
| Orlando | FL | 235,745 | 17 | 19.078 | 377 | 92.9 miles |
| North Fort Myers | FL | 51,280 | 0 | - | 0 | 94.2 miles |
| Cape Coral | FL | 161,428 | 1 | 26.0313 | 32 | 95.0 miles |
| Winter Park | FL | - | 6 | 33.3306 | 155 | 98.0 miles |
| Ocala | FL | 57,520 | 3 | 20.3525 | 108 | 98.5 miles |
| Altamonte | FL | - | 1 | 25.1553 | 10 | 99.0 miles |