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College Tech
Prep is Economic Development
Tool
Ohio College Tech Prep strategically prepares technology’s future workforce through innovation, collaboration and program
quality.
- College Tech Prep connects education to economic development.
- College
Tech Prep is designed by business for business. Curriculum is based on market needs.
- Business
representatives work together with College Tech Prep professionals to
develop a curricula that blends high-level academics with high
demand technology training.
- College Tech Prep
students master skills that transfer to
college and immediately apply to the workforce.
- Students
enter the workforce prepared with advanced technical skills, work-based
training, ability to work in teams, a mature work ethic, and a problem
solving orientation.
- College Tech Prep builds
business, education and community
partnerships to expand student options.
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Investment pays off
By 2010,
the top 10 growth jobs in Ohio will require at least an associate degree.
Two-thirds of high
school College Tech Prep graduates enroll in post secondary education
within a year of graduation.
75%
of employers surveyed indicated they were satisfied or very
satisfied with College Tech Prep graduates.
Seven of the top ten future jobs directly relate to
information
technology, one of the fastest growing pathways in the College Tech
Prep program. |
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