Training, Workforce
and Education

• State-of-the art industrial training programs through Alabama Industrial Development Training (AIDT), including recruitment, customized training (pre-employment and upgrade), and employee development at all organizational levels and usually cost free.
  
• "Right-to-Work" state.
  
• Labor market area data for all 67 Alabama counties.
  
• Workforce Productivity Resource Center assistance and confidential, voluntary OSHA compliance assistance programs.
  
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), counseling programs and occupational health programs.
  
• Sixteen state-sponsored universities and thirteen independent colleges and universities, including:
  
  • Highly respected schools of Engineering, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine;
    
  • Internationally recognized Optometry, Dental, Agricultural, and Forestry schools.
    
• Occupational and technical programs offered through community and junior college network.
  
• Magnet school curricula patterned after colleges, providing intensive study in several academic areas.
  
• Certified Japanese Saturday schools.
  
• Advanced schools such as:
  
  • the Alabama School of the Fine Arts, one of only three state-supported creative arts schools in the nation;
    
  • the Academy for Mathematics & Sciences.