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Robust Workforce and Education

An abundant, skilled labor supply improves productivity, quality and profit.

Fact: Ohio’s higher education institutions graduate more potential employees than many states combined, in addition to the state’s pool of skilled workers across nine key industries.

Benefit: The education and workforce development system in Ohio is designed to create an educated, innovative and reliable workforce for your business.

Ohio has a statewide workforce of six million, more than the total population most states can claim. With 180,000 graduating high school seniors and more than 78,000 college graduates ready to join the workforce every year, Ohio is a juggernaut of worker productivity.

Ohio's education system doesn't end with graduation. The state offers unique workforce programs for continuing education to help employers conduct necessary training. Ohio works to helps educate the workforce in partnership with industry.

Ohio's primary regions each play to their market strengths, and area workforce and education opportunities are no exception. Representing the nation's third-largest manufacturing economy, Ohio's regions have carved out dominant employee expertise and supportive education systems.

Ohio is serious about the business of creating jobs. In fact, Ohio’s commitment to meeting the workforce and talent development needs of businesses and preparing workers for employment is evidenced by the breadth and depth of its education and work force development resources at it vocational schools, community colleges and universities.

From K-12 schools that challenge and inspire students to be imaginative and analytical in their thinking, to post secondary institutions that develop hard-working, highly skilled graduates--Ohio is continually ensuring that employers have a competitive advantage in the 21st century global marketplace.