Education and Workforce Readiness
The top 10 programs by enrollment included two-year healthcare-related degrees in allied health sciences and radiologic technology and four-year programs related to business, social sciences, elementary education, sports and exercise sciences, and natural sciences.
Figure 29c. Source: https://viya-srv-pub.osrhe.edu/SASVisualAnalytics/?reportUri=%2Freports%2Freports%2F395d7de2-90be-46c7-a0ae- cf605bf3d28c&sso_guest=true&sas-welcome=false
In 2023, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education published Blueprint 2030: Innovating and Elevating Oklahoma Higher Education for Tomorrow’s Workforce, which outlines its strategic plan for the higher education system over the next several years. The plan emphasizes the key role Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities play in producing the state’s workforce. The report highlights a few trends and challenges in our state: Due to the decrease in younger populations in Oklahoma, high school graduating classes are anticipated to peak by 2026 and then decline by 2030. When it comes to college readiness, for the 2022 graduating class in Oklahoma, only 10% of students met the four ACT college readiness benchmarks and only 6% were ready to pursue STEM majors.
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