Labor Market Tools

Understanding the relationship between school and work isn’t as simple as supply and demand. Nursing and accounting are linear: The program leads directly to the job. Psychology and business are flexible: Graduates can apply their skills to many types of jobs, but they need to articulate how their courses prepared them for work.

To clarify the value of both linear and flexible majors, we design our tools around a three-dimensional skills development model that looks at the following:

• the people in your community and the skills they have
• the jobs in your community and the skills they require
• the relationships between educators, employers, workforce entities, and community organizations to help people prepare for their desired careers

Our dashboards can help you move beyond a two-dimensional worldview to reveal opportunity in three dimensions with data for every postsecondary institution and county in the country.

Identifying Potential Students

Recruiting adult learners? Start here.

See who in your community could benefit from postsecondary education but isn’t enrolled yet. Compare current students to the surrounding population and explore how education level, employment, and income vary across age groups.

Common Majors and Career Opportunities

Which majors are linear? Which are flexible?

Explore the most common majors at specific institutions, which students enroll in those majors, and the types of career opportunities associated with each major.

Majors to Jobs

What do graduates actually do?

Pick a major and see what jobs people landed. Pick an occupation and see which majors got hired. Pick an employer type and see what roles they offer. Learn about degree requirements, unemployment rates, earnings, and living wage data.