- Many students getting advanced degrees are already employed in that field.
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- Students from other states may return to their home states, especially at the graduate level. Similarly,
foreign students often go back to their home country.
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- Some programs are not offered in Connecticut, such as veterinary medicine. Connecticut students
desiring to major in these programs will have to go out of state and will not be counted in Connecticut
supply data.
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- Supply data includes only graduates of formal training programs. There are other sources of
training for many of the occupations, such as apprenticeships and on-the-job training. Graduates
of training programs that do not report to a central collection point, in general are also not
included.
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- Clusters may include several levels of related occupations that require different amounts of
education and training. For example, a cluster may include some combination of therapists (bachelor’s
or above), technologists (associate degree), technicians (certificate), assistants (certificate or OJT),
or aides (OJT).
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- Not all programs in a cluster will match with all occupations in that cluster, but they are
related with some overlap.
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- Even within a cluster, care needs to be taken to match the right level of graduates to openings. For
example, in Pharmacy – annual job openings match best with the Pharm.D. graduates and MS/PhD graduates in
Pharmaceutics. For the pre-pharmacy graduates, most go on in Pharmacy, but the rest may go into other
sciences such as biology or chemistry.
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- Those who already have a bachelor’s degree may take programs at the certificate level in order to
learn new or advanced skills.
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- Those with undergraduate degrees in various sciences may go on to medical or dental school rather than continue in biology,
chemistry or other sciences.
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- For some occupations, a graduate degree is generally needed for employment. Students receiving
degrees at lower levels, such as a bachelor’s degree, may go into other occupations instead of
continuing their education in their current field.
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