Admissions Requirements

As part of the Cooperative Alliance Project, some higher education institutions, in partnership with Oklahoma’s career technology centers, have been approved to allow high school students to enroll in technical programs and courses under separate admission standards. This allows an 11th- or 12th-grade student enrolled in an accredited high school or a student who is at least 16 years of age and receiving high school-level instruction at home or from an unaccredited high school to be admitted to a college or university in the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education that offers technical AAS and certificate programs and enroll in technical courses only. Students must meet the following standards:

Regional Universities and Community Colleges

• Option 1 - ACT: 19

• Option 2 - ACT PLAN: 15

• Option 3 - High School GPA: 2.5

(The required ACT score is the composite score without the writing component. )

In addition to meeting the requirements above, students must provide a letter of support from the high school counselor and written permission from a parent or legal guardian. All other concurrent admission policy requirements remain in effect for technical students, including retention standards.

Continuous Enrollment

Once a student has qualified for admissions into an Alliance program, that student needs only to maintain the 2.0 GPA requirement to enroll for the next semesters classes. There is no need to re-summit the PLAN, ACT, high school GPA, parental permission or admission forms.

Not all institutions are approved to offer this option for high school students. Contact the higher education institution or CareerTech center you wish to attend for more information.