STEM Programs and their Importance in the Current Market
Abstract
The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses provide education and skill development in subjects that are critical for advancing society in many ways. Each plays an important role in generating breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and business that serve as drivers of industry change and can lead to entrepreneurship, small business development, and an influx of jobs for any society or culture in which there is the opportunity to learn these subjects. The purpose of this research paper was to discuss STEM programs and the importance of these programs to the current market. An overview of STEM programs was provided first, and a narrative review and research paper was then presented that discussed impacts of STEM programs to what was deemed to refer to the economic market, although the impacts of STEM programs on the job market in education were also considered in this research paper and critical discussion.