FORTUNE — Despite the gloomy jobs report this month, there’s some bright news for American job-seekers. The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that positions in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields are on the rise in the United States. The Commerce Department report says that over the past 10 years, the number of people employed in STEM jobs increased by three times as much as the growth rate for non-STEM employment, growing by just under 8% to 7.6 million workers. Between 2008 and 2018, U.S. STEM jobs are predicted to grow by 17%, compared to a growth rate estimate of just under 10% for non-STEM jobs. Job growth expectations of any kind are certainly encouraging, but will the U.S. have enough qualified workers to fill these jobs? Perhaps not, as it looks like the U.S. education system is falling behind in the very fields that show the most job growth potential.

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In a move to measure its workforce not too long ago, Nationwide Insurance surveyed its 36,000 employees at the time. Its CEO was in for a shock. The single largest employment category had nothing to do with insurance and was instead “technology.” The story is told by Brian Fitzgerald, executive director of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), to dramatize the transformation of the U.S. workforce. At Nationwide, an entire upper tier of computer scientists had to be brought in from India because the company didn’t have enough in Ohio. “You can be selling insurance or manufacturing cars,” Fitzgerald says, “but almost every American corporation has been turned into a technology operation.”

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