Societal Demand
Societal and Labor Market Demand Resources
Use these resources to justify the link between the proposed program and workforce need in North Carolina, highlight the projected job growth and educational requirements for linked occupations, and discuss return on investment for students.
- Choosing CIP Codes Guide
- Program Occupation Mapping Guide
- Workforce Alignment Guide
- Education Premium Guide
- Return on Investment Guide
- UNC-SO Tuition & Fees Website
- IPAR Business Intelligence App (University credentials required)
- NC Tower Website
- Lightcast Report
Lightcast is a labor market data company. A Lightcast report will contain information on program completions nationally by institution (with market share, growth, and tuition/fees), regional trends in both distance education and non-distance education program completions, and labor market demand (target occupations, trends in national job postings, regional breakdown of job postings, top companies and cities with job postings, top occupations and titles in job postings, and relevant qualifications). To obtain a Lightcast report for the proposed program, please submit a Curriculum Planning Support Ticket.
- College Scorecard
College Scorecard contains data on expected earnings by field of study and on indebtedness/repayment and relationship to potential earnings. Choose “Field of Study” from the drop-down menu; note that data are not available for all fields of study. Either yearly earnings and median total debt after graduation OR monthly earnings and monthly loan payment can be used to calculate debt-to-earnings ratio and estimated percentage of earnings used to service debt. For example, if, for a given field of study, median annual earnings are $76,422 and median total debt after graduation is $24,250, the calculation would yield a result suggesting that total debt is just over 30% of the annual salary. Similarly, if the median monthly earnings are $6,369 and the median monthly loan payment is $257, then the loan payment is about 4% of the monthly earnings.
Access, Affordability, & Student Success Resources
Use these resources to help you confirm alignment with ECU’s mission and strategic plan plus the strategic goals of the UNC-SO.