Abstract
Is a GIS Degree Worthwhile? Business Analyst Says …
Track: User Presentations - Teaching
Authors: Richard Kos, J. M. Pogodzinski
In this presentation, we use Business Analyst Online and Desktop to look at GIS degree programs and jobs. Business Analyst Online offers detailed data about industries. Business Analyst Desktop offers sophisticated analytic tools. Combining these data sources with publicly available census and Bureau of Labor Statistics data allows us to look closely at the labor market for GIS-related jobs. We focus on California, but the methods we describe can be used to analyze prospects for GIS employment anywhere. More important, the methods we describe can be used to describe the prospects for employment in any field anywhere. We are really analyzing workforce development - a key component of economic development policy. As authors of the just-released Esri Press book Economic Development and GIS, we think the tools of GIS can be applied to a wide variety of economic development policy issues including workforce development, site selection, tax analysis, and more.