Noodle for Workforce

Careers Your Students Can Reach With Reduced Debt

Connect your students to careers with less financial burden through a dedicated employer relationship team, a direct path from partnership to placement, and infrastructure that runs tuition relief and loan repayment without added headcount.

A Widening Gap Between Retiring Workers and New Ones

That pressure to drive meaningful connection between students and employers is only growing. Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce projects a shortfall of up to 6 million workers by 2032 as 18 million college-educated workers retire faster than new ones enter the labor force, including a projected shortfall of 362,000 nurses and 611,000 teachers, the two fields Workforce serves today.

Current Alternatives Are Failing

Philanthropy-funded scholarships run out after a few years, ending the partnerships they support. Meanwhile, traditional tuition-assistance agreements are losing legal footing as states increasingly restrict their use. Noodle for Workforce builds and manages employer relationships directly, creating sustainable partnerships that don’t depend on expiring funds or high-risk legal structures.

Although traditional job boards link students with open roles, establishing a formal commitment between a specific employer and student prior to graduation—inclusive of loan repayment benefits—demands a specialized infrastructure consisting of a legal framework, an automated payment platform, and dedicated management. Noodle builds and manages these as an integrated suite, with the flexibility to support all or any combination of these three areas.

Purpose-Built for the Fields We Serve

Meeting that gap takes infrastructure built for each field, not a generic solution. Licensure requirements set the terms for clinical and allied health roles, which our Scholars Network’s compliance framework is designed to meet. Our teacher preparation model, built in partnership with NYU Steinhardt, runs through a full graduate degree and a mentored, year-long residency, meeting the rigor the profession itself demands.

Core Capabilities

Employer-backed pipeline development
Clinical and allied health specialization
Fintech-enabled administration
Employer-university ecosystem integration
Program eligibility tracking

Clinical & Allied Health

Delivered through Scholars Network, this pathway pairs employer-backed loan repayment with a licensure-compliant structure. Active across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan, Scholars Network has secured over $100 million in loan repayment across a variety of clinical disciplines.

Scholars Network: Loan Repayment Built Around Licensure

That same administrative backbone is what lets Scholars Network run compliant loan repayment across six states without needing your team managing the verification and payment logistics.

Partners with health systems to place students into clinical and allied health roles, including nursing, medical imaging, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and respiratory therapy
Employer-backed loan repayment attached directly to the placement before graduation
More than $100 million in loan repayment secured across 20+ clinical roles to date
Active in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan

Teacher Preparation

Currently delivered through the NYU Teacher Residency model, this established, decade-long partnership places teacher residents in positions with salary and post-residency commitment terms across New York City, Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, and Washington, DC.

NYU Steinhardt: A Decade of Workforce-Aligned Teacher Preparation

This comprehensive administrative framework also enabled NYU Steinhardt to scale a partnership spanning a decade without requiring additional personnel for its management. By pairing online graduate courses with paid, mentored classroom teacher roles in partner districts, NYU Steinhardt’s teacher residency model lowers the admissions and financial barriers that have traditionally blocked qualified candidates.

Over 1,000 residents prepared through the program to date
63% identify as BIPOC, more than three times the roughly 20% BIPOC representation across the U.S. public-school teaching workforce
62% placed in high-need subjects, including math, science, and special education
Recipient of the 2024 Best Practice Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Fintech-Enabled Administration

Both pathways share real administrative weight behind the scenes: IRS compliance, payment routing, ongoing enrollment changes. Noodle handles all of it—verifying eligibility, routing payments directly to loan servicers or employee accounts, and syncing with your existing systems, so no one on your team has to manage the logistics behind the benefit.

Helping You Solve What’s Next

At every stage, Noodle connects strategy, services, and technology to improve the learner experience and propel learners forward at your institution.

Ready to connect your students to careers with less debt?

Noodle for Workforce builds and manages employer relationships, benefit agreements, and loan repayment administration directly—giving your students a placement pathway and loan repayment post-graduation with no cost, financial risk, or added headcount for your institution.

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