Career Tech
Your Sound Investment

Whether you are a high school student or adult wanting to upgrade your skills, a company owner wishing to expand services, or an offender soon-to-be-released from prison, Oklahoma’s CareerTech system has choices for you.

As an Oklahoma taxpayer, you are an investor in Oklahoma’s CareerTech system.
It is your right to know and our obligation to ensure your investment is sound; your return is solid.

Oklahoma’s CareerTech system elevates our economy by providing high quality training, education and services to thousands of Oklahomans . . . every day.

In 2006, economist Mark Snead completed a study of lifetime income gains and the impact on the Oklahoma economy of CareerTech’s technology center full-time program graduates.

Snead is director of the Center for Applied Economic Research, Department of Economics and Legal Studies at Oklahoma State University.

Soon Snead will be looking at the impact of CareerTech’s business and industry training services and programs found in 559 junior and senior high schools across Oklahoma.

Explore how Oklahoma’s CareerTech system is elevating our economy.

 

FACTS:

  • About one-of-five Oklahoma workers age 18 and older complete a vocational or technical program.
  • CareerTech education is the most common level of education beyond high school of Oklahoma workers.

Your Sound Investment – CareerTech’s Solid Return

 

Oklahoma's CareerTech System: Elevating Our Economy