Postsecondary education is a basic requirement for many jobs in innovation-based companies.
The profile of intended majors of college-bound seniors who take the SAT is an important indicator of the interests that secondary school students have in those fields that are important to the growth of the Innovation Economy. This trend has remained relatively constant over the past several years. Hardly any Massachusetts students surveyed expressed an intention to major in Mathematics. Massachusetts needs to produce far greater numbers of engineers, scientists and IT workers in order to maintain its leadership in the Innovation Economy. But the state s colleges and universities cannot simply supply new engineers and technical workers on demand.