Why Career and Technical Education?

Because Giving Yourself Options and Career Advantages is a Good Thing!

Exploring and utilizing any number of the CTE Pathways can help shape your future after high school. Engaging in one of the pathways might inspire you to follow a particular major in college; or you may decide that jumping into a career right out of high school is a better choice for you. Either way, the CTE Pathways can help you succeed in the professional world by:

  • Helping you earn credits in dual credit classes

  • Giving you an early advantage in a career before you graduate

  • Building up a resume that looks great to employers and college admissions

  • Providing a potentially debt free career path that yields high earnings

  • Teaching you professional skills through real-time experiences in the local workforce

Look below at some of the many benefits that can come from following a CTE Pathway into an internship

CTE Pathways, Courses, Jobs and Earning Potential

This table lists our CTE pathways, examples of related high school courses, the range of degrees and certificates needed to access jobs in the particular field, examples of jobs in the pathway, and the range of earning potential in Montana. This information was retrieved from https://www.mus.edu/mcp/arts.html.

CTE Pathways, Courses, Jobs, and Earning Potential

Jump Start Your Career

According to the Montana Registered Apprenticeship program, registered apprentices benefit from:

  • High paying jobs

  • Full-time employment

  • Earn while you learn

  • Hands-on training by those in the field

  • Little to no debt upon completion!!!

Sought After Skills

Through the CTE pathways and Work-Based Learning you will:

  • Have on-the-job training

  • Earn industry credentials through your high school courses, dual credit courses, early college courses, and in trainings offered by employers

Earn More Money!

Apprentices who continue on into their chosen career earn an average of $63,000 annually, which is $20,000 higher than the Montana average wage according to the Montana Registered Apprenticeship program!

  • After a 30 year career, that's $600,000 dollars more, and it doesn't even account for raises over the course of one's career!

  • You'll start earning a paycheck on day 1 of your apprenticeship, or possibly your pre-apprenticeship.

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