We’re making it even easier to go to college and pursue a meaningful career – no matter where you are. Online VCCS opens up every online program and course offered across Virginia’s 23 community colleges.
Use broad groups of careers and industries called Career Clusters to search for Degree Programs organized by career and technical education areas.
Agriculture Architecture Communications Business Education Finance Government Health Tourism Human Services Information Technology Law Manufacturing Marketing Science Transportation
This cluster includes everything related to the creation of agricultural products. Job fields include farming, ranching, food processing, engineering, environmental protection, and veterinary medicine.
This cluster includes teaching, training, counseling, advising, student support, and related administrative roles in K-12, higher education, and corporate environments.
This cluster includes professionals who provide social, consumer, or personal services to people. It encompasses fields as diverse as cosmetology, counseling, social work, real estate, and personal banking.
This cluster covers activities and processes involved in transforming raw materials or parts into a new product. Careers include people involved in the processing and production of goods, safety, engineering, and quality management.
The finance cluster includes careers in banking, investments, and insurance as well as those who manage taxes and finances for businesses.
This cluster includes biology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, scientific research, and all engineering disciplines. Careers in this cluster relate to planning, and providing scientific research, professional, and technical services.
This cluster includes designing, building, and maintaining homes, industrial facilities, streets, or bridges. Job fields include skilled tradespeople like carpenters and plumbers, interior designers, civil engineers, and construction site managers.
This cluster includes everyone who works for a government agency or organization at the local, state, and federal levels.
This cluster covers the planning and movement of people and goods. Workers in this industry design transportation systems, operate or repair equipment, plan how to move materials, and take care of storing products.
This cluster focuses on writing, publishing, designing, producing, exhibiting, and performing multimedia content. Careers include journalists, performers, and behind-the-scenes workers who make TV, film, media, music, and live performances happen.
This cluster includes healthcare providers as well as those providing research, diagnostics, data, and utilization support to healthcare facilities. Nearly all jobs require certification of licensure as well.
This cluster covers designing, developing, supporting, and managing hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration services. The cluster includes software development, network and systems administration, and information security.
This cluster covers functions related to planning, organizing, and directing functions essential to efficient and productive business operations. It includes accounting, human resources, administrative support, operations, and managerial roles.
This cluster includes jobs within restaurants, bars, tourist attractions, resorts, hotels, events, and travel agencies. Most roles have involve significant customer interaction.
This cluster is about protecting and serving the public. Professions include emergency services, security/surveillance, lawyers, judges, court personnel, and law enforcement.
The marketing cluster includes careers in sales, public relations, merchandising, and marketing, regardless of industry, and focuses on influencing consumers’ buying behavior and generating sales for products and services.
