Labor Market Data to Help Every Learner Succeed
Create market-aligned programs, connect students to career pathways, and demonstrate the value of your institution with trusted workforce data.
Turn Education Into Opportunity.
Lightcast helps colleges, universities, and education partners connect programs to the labor market, so learners can build skills that lead to meaningful careers—and institutions can show the value they deliver.
We provide the data and insight so that educators can optimize program offerings, connect students to programs and careers, and communicate outcomes and impact.
With Lightcast, You Can:
Create and maintain programs aligned to employer demand
Help students explore careers, skills, and education pathways
Market programs with clear employment outcomes
Retain and support students with relevant career insight
Track alumni outcomes and demonstrate institutional impact
Use labor market data to show ROI for students, taxpayers, and communities
Everybody Wins.
Students
find long-term careers.
Institutions
produce capable, prepared graduates.
Employers
find talent that meets their needs.
Economies
grow and develop.
The Speed of Skill Change
The average US job has seen one-third of its skills change from 2021 to 2024. See our breakdown of every occupation by its “Skill Disruption Index,” score on a scale of 0 to 100 and more in this Speed of Skill Change report.
Our Data: Comprehensive. Contextualized. Actionable.
With the world’s most comprehensive labor market database—including over 3 billion job postings, 1.2 billion career profiles, and over 100 government sources—Lightcast delivers unparalleled insight into skills, jobs, businesses, professional profiles, and workforce trends across 165 countries.
Learn More About Lightcast Data3 billion
Job postings
6.3 million
companies
34,000
Skills
242 million
Salary observations
1.2 billion
careers profiles
165
countries
17
languages
1800+
Unique occupations
“Lightcast enables us to access a data source that supports the work that we do—and furthers it.”
Solutions For Every Education Challenge
Analyst
Build market-aligned programs with the best labor market data available. Analyst helps you understand industries, occupations, employers, skills, demographics, and demand so you can make confident academic decisions.
Program Gap Analysis
See where your academic portfolio is aligned—and where opportunity is being missed. Gap Analysis gives you a decision-ready view of program supply, labor market demand, and areas for growth.
Skillabi
Connect curriculum to careers through skills. Skillabi shows how the skills taught in your programs align to the skills employers value, helping you improve programs and communicate their relevance.
Career Coach
Help learners discover careers and education pathways that match their interests and goals. Career Coach connects your programs to local job opportunities, in-demand skills, and career outcomes.
Widget Builder
Add trusted career information directly to your website. Widget Builder makes it easy to embed up-to-date job, salary, and career outlook data while maintaining your institution’s brand.
Alumni Pathways
Data-rich reports and analysis of your alumni’s employment outcomes.
NACM
National Alumni Career Mobility Survey to measure and improve learner career success.
Economic Impact
Prove your institution’s value to students, taxpayers, and society. Lightcast economists quantify your economic contribution and calculate the return on investment your institution delivers.
Embark
Capture first-destination outcomes with less manual work. Embark combines survey collection with actionable analytics so you can understand where graduates go and report outcomes with confidence.
Data Delivery and APIs
Bring Lightcast data into your own platforms, program pages, dashboards, and student tools. Access trusted labor market data directly so you can build education experiences tailored to your learners and institution.
Ready To Get Started?
Students need clarity. Institutions need evidence. Employers need talent. With Lightcast, you have the data, software, and expertise to align programs with the labor market, support learners, and show the full value of your institution.
Together, we can connect classrooms to careers.
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A Guide to Market Research for Colleges and Universities
New program ideas need more than instinct; they need clear evidence from the labor market. Our Guide to Market Research for Colleges and Universities helps education leaders evaluate demand, understand key data sources, and make stronger decisions about which programs to launch, grow, or refine.