Pathways to the Future!
Career Pathways are educational programs designed to prepare students for skilled employment in targeted industry sectors. The term "career pathway" may be used for programs that prepare the emerging workforce, such as high school students, or adults returning to work, transitioning to a new career field, or seeking to progress in their current field.
Career Pathways must be comprised of sequences of core academic and CTE courses at both the secondary and postsecondary level and must offer students the opportunity to gain early college credits through high school coursework, i.e. dual enrollment. Additionally,
the program has to be targeted to career preparation in a high skills, high wage, and/or high demand occupational area.
Virginia Western Community College currently has thirty Tech Prep Career Pathways that you may choose from. Click to see the full list along with the corresponding dual enrollment courses. 07-08 Tech Prep Career Pathways
Click the links below for detailed information about a few of these career pathway programs or click the programs of study link (upper right) for more in-depth information for all career pathways:
- Administrative Support Technology (AST)
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- Information Systems Technology (IST)
