Did you Know?

• In Money Magazine's "Best Jobs in America," software engineer ranked #1 and computer/IT analyst ranked #7.

• CollegeBoard.com listed 6 computing professions in their top-10 "Occupations with the Most New Jobs: Bachelor's Degrees" and listed 5 computing professions in the "Ten Fastest Growing Occupations for College Grads." These two listings were based on Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) studies.

• The BLS forecasts a 24% growth rate in new computing jobs (854,000 new jobs) and projects 1.64 million total job openings for the 2006-2016 period.

• The professional IT workforce is expected to grow at more than twice the rate of the overall workforce between 2006 and 2016, with the largest demand for software engineers (324% growth), software applications developers (226% growth) and computer system analysts (146% growth).