• employee market
• education

Successful businesses need qualified employees. But the workforce of the Upper Palatinate can offer more than that – dedication, reliability, and honesty.

Qualified personnel, university graduates, or lateral entrants – in the Upper Palatinate you will find personnel tailored to your needs and an extraordinary wage level.

The region’s many educational institutions accompany young people on their way to their dream job. Elementary schools, secondary schools, middle schools, high schools, preparatory schools for specialist colleges, or vocational high schools – a dense web of educational institutions provides the prerequisites for tomorrow’s employees.

Whether vocational training, university studies, or continuing education, “the plus of the Upper Palatinate” offers a remarkable framework and opportunities to reinforce one’s own strengths. The list below highlights the most important institutions in the economic region.

• European Vocational School Weiden
• Vocational School Center Schwandorf
• University for Applied Sciences Weiden/Amberg
• Computing School Wiesau

In addition, the vicinity of “the plus of the Upper Palatinate” is home to numerous other third level institutions.

• Bayreuth University
• Regensburg University
• University of Applied Sciences Regensburg
• Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Nuremburg
• Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen
• Western Bohemian University, Pilsen (CZ)