Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Most Washington state jobs will require
post-secondary education within next 10 years

Washington state is ranked sixth in the nation for the number of jobs that require post-secondary education, with 67 percent of jobs requiring post-secondary education by 2018, according to research from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.

Of the more than 3.5 million job vacancies expected to be in the state by the end of 2018, the number of jobs requiring post-secondary education is estimated to grow by 259,000, the number of jobs for high-school graduates by 80,000 and the number of jobs for high school dropouts by 27,000.

Read The Daily Evergreen's full story and get WSU professors' perspective on this trend here.

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