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Oklahoma institutions of higher education are producing a smaller proportion of graduates in engineering fields, compared to the national mix of bachelor's degrees conferred:

• 4.6% of bachelor's degrees conferred by Oklahoma institutions of higher education were in an engineering field (total of 14,789 degrees conferred, 1994-95 academic year);
  
  
• The analogous national proportion is 5.3% (total of 1.17 million degrees conferred, 1994-95 academic year);
  
  
• Oklahoma institutions fell 107 degrees short of the national proportion;

(Sources: NCES, Digest of Education Statistics 1996; OSRHE , Degrees Conferred in Oklahoma Higher Education)