What are your options after high School?

A university is an institution of higher education, usually made up of a college of liberal arts and sciences having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. 

Community colleges, sometimes called junior colleges, are two-year schools that provide affordable postsecondary education as a pathway to a four-year degree.

A technical (trade or vocational) school is a postsecondary educational institution designed to offer training to students for a specific job in a skilled trade career. Technical schools offer hands-on learning.

Supported employment refers to service provisions wherein people with disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, mental health, and traumatic brain injury, among others, are assisted with obtaining and maintaining employment. 

Apprenticeships combine paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction to prepare workers for highly-skilled careers. Workers benefit from apprenticeships by receiving a skills-based education that prepares them for good-paying jobs.

Paid work at a particular company or organization (for example, a Sales Associate at Foot Locker). You can have many jobs in your lifetime. A job gives you valuable experience that leads to your next job and helps you build a career over time ‒ the series of jobs becomes your career.