Harvard economic professor N. Gregory Mankiw published a nice piece recently in the New York Times, advising people on some of the humanities they should include in their pursuit of a college education and why.

With all due respect to the professor, however, he wrote something near the end of the piece that isn’t quite so, at least not in Virginia:

The one certain thing about the future is that it is far from certain. I don’t know what emerging industries will be attracting college graduates four years from now, and neither does anyone else.

The Virginia Education Wizard was created, in part, to show individuals exactly what jobs are in demand today and what jobs will be in demand five years from now.

To illustrate the point, we recently published the second annual “Hot Jobs” Index that examines that very question on a statewide basis.

Of course, you can personalize that forecast to your interest by creating a free account on the Wizard – something more than 100,000 people have done to date.

Consider the professor’s advice on what humanities classes to pick up along the way.  His reasoning is sound. 

Come to the Wizard though if you want to know where the jobs will be and what those jobs will be that will let you put that knowledge to good use.

Posted by Jeffrey Kraus