Career Clusters help students investigate careers and design their courses of study to advance their career goals. For this reason, Virginia has adopted the nationally accepted structure of career clusters, career pathways and sample career specialties or occupations.

A Career Cluster is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities. Within each career cluster, there are multiple career pathways that represent a common set of skills and knowledge, both academic and technical, necessary to pursue a full range of career opportunities within that pathway – ranging from entry level to management, including technical and professional career specialties. Based on the skills sets taught, all CTE courses are aligned with one or more career clusters and career pathways.

By clicking on a cluster you will be directed to a list of pathways within that cluster and then by clicking on the cluster within that page you will be directed to the Virginia Department of Education Website where the average salary and job outlook for the different pathways can be found.

Information for this page and subsequent pages are directly from the Virginia Department of Education Website