Postsecondary Attainment Goals
in SREB States
| State | 2016 Attainment Level |
Goal | By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 37.9% | Add 500,000 highly skilled employees |
2025 |
| Arkansas | 39.9% | 60% | 2025 |
| Delaware | 43.2% | none | none |
| Florida | 46.9% | 55% | 2025 |
| Georgia | 48.0% | 60% | 2025 |
| Kentucky | 44.6% | 60% | 2030 |
| Louisiana | 45.7% | Reach the SREB attainment level average |
2025 |
| Maryland | 50.6% | 55% | 2025 |
| Mississippi | 37.5% | Reach the national attainment level average |
2025 |
| North Carolina | 47.4% | none | none |
| Oklahoma | 41.8% | 70% | 2025 |
| South Carolina | 42.0% | 60% | 2025 |
| Tennessee | 40.7% | 55% | 2025 |
| Texas | 42.4% | 60% of adults ages 25-34 |
2030 |
| Virginia | 52.2% | 70% | 2030 |
| West Virginia | 34.7% | 60% | 2030 |
Revised November 2018
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
2016 attainment-level data from Lumina Foundation’s A Stronger Nation 2017 report.