2026 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT RANKINGS: Bright Horizons

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19 Jan 2026


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Refreshed report card gives North Carolina outstanding marks.

If you’re ready to graduate your company’s operations to the next level on a foundation of skills and talent, North Carolina is a good place to enroll.

So say the results of Site Selection’s 2026 Workforce Development Rankings, based on an updated index of criteria that, like a good workforce, know how to get after it. We also have introduced more per-capita metrics. Top-performing states hail from all corners of the country.

Site Selection rankings published throughout the year use the publication’s Conway Projects Database of corporate end-user facility investment projects to take the measure of regional economic development agencies. So it only makes sense that any measure of state workforce development take into account that workforce’s prowess, whether measured by credentials, certificates and degrees; technical skills and productivity; or something equally important to employee and employer alike: return on investment.

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