Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements

The Center on Education and Workforce released a report Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018.  If you are looking for new degree programs to grow in your area, I recommend investigating this report.  You might even be able to use it in your marketing material.  Here is just a sample that I found interesting:

"Sales occupations will provide 6.3 million total job openings between 2008 and 2018: 1.7 million net new jobs and 4.6 million openings from retirements. Some 4.2 million of these new and replacement jobs will require some college education or more. The largest proportion of workers hired for these positions (29 percent) will require a Bachelor’s degree." p. 30

We certainly need to help adults transition to new jobs and align our curriculum to help them gain the skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow.  I still believe that accelerated programs are the answer to the need in the United States to ramp up the education level of our workforce.