Ohio’s overall bioscience industry—including commercial entities, medical colleges, and the health care delivery system—directly and indirectly generates more than 1.2 million jobs in Ohio. Commercial bioscience contributes 62,533 direct jobs to Ohio’s economy. This includes a diverse range of jobs such as manufacturing engineers and managers, lab and imaging technicians, toxicologists, clinical trial coordinators, food technologists, bioinformatics software developers, bioscience entrepreneurs and much more. Health care and hospitals and Ohio’s seven medical colleges are responsible for the largest share of bioscience-related jobs, including doctors, nurses, ancillary medical staff, researchers, and laboratory technicians.

Ohio is committed to providing a skilled, educated workforce to help the state's business community grow and prosper. Ohio's six million workers exceed the populations of 31 other states. With 180,000 graduating high school seniors and more than 78,000 college graduates ready to join the workforce every year, Ohio is a juggernaut of worker productivity.

Ohio's pursuit of rigorous secondary school standards, a premier higher education system poised to produce next-generation graduates for emerging and leading industries and an existing robust employment pool all point to the state's commitment to a strong economic future in which the business community can successfully partner.

For additional information on Ohio’s bioscience workforce and education advantages, review BioOhio’s Working & Learning area and the State of Ohio’s business development web site