Foothill Has High-Wage, High-Demand Career Programs
Get the Career Planning Employers Demand

If you’re in between jobs, anticipating a corporate downsizing or want to explore new career options, Foothill College can help you achieve your goals. Our certificate programs can be completed in two years or less and feature more than 40 programs. Last year, more than 1,300 students earned career certificates by completing our intensive career training programs.

Students who complete Foothill career programs are aggressively recruited for high-wage, high-demand jobs, particularly in the fields of health care and computer technology. Employers value Foothill graduates and pay our graduates more than the state’s average wage. In some cases, Foothill students will earn twice the state average wage for similar positions, according to state wage data reports. For instance, our computer programming students are paid on average 56 percent more; dental hygiene students are paid 66 percent more; and graphic arts students are paid about double the state average.

“You’re not going to get a better education anywhere else. Foothill programs will give you the training you need for a good, stable job that pays a good wage,” says Foothill Vice President of Instruction & Institutional Research Bill Patterson. “Aside from the high quality of Foothill programs, we are the only school offering degrees and certificates in many of these high-wage, high-demand programs.”

Foothill also gives you a comprehensive education. A Foothill degree or certificate means that you have completed course work designed to improve your ability to communicate, compute, think analytically and critically, and work collaboratively with large and small groups—the exact critical life skills that employers demand.

Industry leaders not only hire Foothill students, they work closely with our faculty to continually develop new career programs to address critical shortages of qualified workers, particularly in health care. As an example, Foothill is working with leading area medical facilities to develop new programs such as radiation therapy technology, nuclear medicine and polysomnography that may be offered as soon as next fall.
Foothill also offers a variety of student services to help you succeed, including job fairs, financial aid packages, resume writing and interviewing technique workshops, career assessment courses, internship opportunities, and academic and career counseling. For more information, access the Biology Division web site.

More GIS Classes Available
Remote Sensing & Map Presentation Course Offered

To meet the growing demand for more Geographic Information Systems (GIS) courses, Foothill College offers two new classes and streamlined course offerings of core GIS classes when Winter Quarter gets under way Jan. 7.

The two core classes—GEOG 12: Introduction to GIS and GEOG 52: Advanced GIS—will be offered back-to-back, allowing you to complete the core of the certificate program in just 12 weeks. Introduction to GIS meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Jan. 8 through Feb. 14. Advanced GIS meets Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Feb. 19 through March 28.

In addition, the Foothill GIS Certificate Program will also offer GEOG 58: Remote Sensing and GEOG 59: Cartography Map Presentation & Design courses. These classes are two-unit supporting classes for the GIS certificate.

The Foothill College GIS Certificate Program takes a practical, hands-on approach to learning. You’ll learn how to apply GIS to your discipline, gain experience in a variety of the leading GIS software products, and learn to plan and implement GIS projects. Foothill GIS curriculum is modeled after the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis core curriculum in the geographic information sciences.

Award Winning Foothill Music Theatre Stages She Loves Me

It’s been described as the perfect romantic musical from the team who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and this winter, award-winning Foothill Music Theatre stages She Loves Me Feb. 22 through March 17 in the intimate Studio Theater at Foothill College.

The musical version of the classic James Stewart film, The Little Shop Around the Corner, She Loves Me is a
gentle valentine of a musical, rich in melody, humor and high style. Under the direction of FMT Founder and Foothill Drama Instructor Jay Manley, the show features a talented cast and live instrumental ensemble. For show times and tickets, call (650) 948-4444.