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Orange RPU 2023 Biennial Modification to PY 2021-24 Regional Plan <br /> <br />15 <br /> <br /> <br />Orange County’s primary competitive advantage is a talent pool of highly educated, <br />qualified residents. In Orange County, 50% of adults over 25 have an associate degree <br />or higher, while only 13.49% lack a high school diploma. Orange County residents with <br />bachelor’s degrees are 6.3% above the national average, and 7.7% hold an associate <br />degree, which is 0.9% below the national average. <br /> <br />Education data covers <br />the population aged <br />25 years or older, <br />indicating the highest <br />level of education <br />achieved. Inequitable <br />access to <br />postsecondary <br />education is a <br />persistent <br />problem. One way in <br />which this manifests is <br />through widely varying <br />educational <br />attainment across <br />races and ethnicity. <br />California’s Post-secondary to Prosperity Dashboard shows that only 16% of Latino <br />residents hold a four-year degree. The dashboard also shows that most Latino residents <br />have no college experience (59%), greater than all other groups.24 <br /> <br />The most popular college majors in Orange County are Liberal Arts and Sciences (16,678 <br />and 20%), Business Administration and Management (7,978 and 9%), and General <br />Psychology (3,041 and 4%). <br /> <br />Orange County Regional Institutions Top Program Completions 25 <br />CIP Code Program Completions (2021) <br />24.0101 Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies 16,678 <br />52.0201 Business Administration and Management, General 7,978 <br />42.0101 Psychology, General 3,041 <br />30.9999 Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other 2,636 <br />51.3801 Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse 2,161 <br />24.0103 Humanities/Humanistic Studies 1,863 <br />11.0701 Computer Science 1,631 <br />09.0101 Speech Communication and Rhetoric 1,522 <br />30.0101 Biological and Physical Sciences 1,512 <br />24.0101 Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies 16,678 <br /> <br />24 “P2P Regions.” California Competes, californiacompetes.org/p2p/regions?region=orange. <br />25 Lightcast, 2022, https://analyst.lightcast.io/. <br />0 <br />100,000 <br />200,000 <br />300,000 <br />400,000 <br />500,000 <br />600,000 <br />Hispanic Asian White Other Black <br />2022 Educational Attainment by Race/Ethnicity <br />Less Than High School High School Diploma College Degree <br />Source: LIGHTCAST, Labor Market Analytics, 2022, Hispanic group contains all combined races <br />EXHIBIT 1