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.