Greensboro Economic
Development Alliance
342 North Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401

Office: (336) 387-8302
Toll-free: (888) 693-6939
Fax: (336) 510-0295

greensboroeda@greensboro.org

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Financial & Business Services Education & Workforce

Well-Trained Workforce - Eleven colleges and universities in the Piedmont Triad region consistently provide a large and well-educated labor pool for financial institutions, insurance services, call centers, and credit services.  Greensboro draws from a regional labor force of over 790,000.  Concentrations of IT talent also make Greensboro and Guilford County a prime location for the operation of corporate data centers and server farm facilities. 

Outstanding Educational Institutions

Our higher education resources are focused on providing specific training in the areas you need most.  From graduate programs to undergraduate degrees to courses that teach specific skills, we’re building a workforce that’s ready to work.

A wide variety of pertinent undergraduate and advanced degrees are offered by Greensboro colleges and universities.  MBA programs are offered by UNCG, Wake Forest University and Elon University, which also has a School of Law in downtown Greensboro.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) has graduate programs in Information Systems & Operations Management, Computer Science, and Information & Technology Management as well as a Ph.D. in Information Systems. 

North Carolina A&T State University (NC A&T) offers a concentration in Management Information Systems as a part of their Master of Science in Management program.  NC A&T also offers an undergraduate program in Computer Engineering.

Guilford Technical Community College (GTCC) provides customized, industry-specific workforce training programs to help companies achieve a world-class workforce.  Through the Quick Jobs program, GTCC offers a wide variety of skill-specific courses to prepare workers in 90 days or less for jobs such as customer relations specialists, credit/collections specialists and bank tellers at affordable prices with convenient times and locations.