Postsecondary Attainment Goals
in SREB States
State | 2017 Attainment Level |
Goal | By |
---|---|---|---|
Alabama | 40% | Add 500,000 highly skilled employees |
2025 |
Arkansas | 41.5% | 60% | 2025 |
Delaware | 42.4% | none | none |
Florida | 49% | 55% | 2025 |
Georgia | 49.6% | 60% | 2025 |
Kentucky | 45.5% | 60% | 2030 |
Louisiana | 44.2% | 60% | 2030 |
Maryland | 51.4% | 55% | 2025 |
Mississippi | 40.9% | Reach the national attainment level average |
2025 |
North Carolina | 49% | 2 million North Carolinians age 25 to 44 have earned a degree or credential |
2030 |
Oklahoma | 42.8% | 70% | 2025 |
South Carolina | 43.7% | 60% | 2025 |
Tennessee | 42.7% | 55% | 2025 |
Texas | 43% | 60% of adults ages 25-34 |
2030 |
Virginia | 53.9% | 70% | 2030 |
West Virginia | 36.4% | 60% | 2030 |
Revised May 2019
Unless otherwise indicated, state goals represent a percentage of the state’s working adult population between ages 25 and 64.
Sources
State attainment goals: State higher education agency master plans and other documents
2017 attainment-level data from Lumina Foundation’s A Stronger Nation 2019 report.