FY 2025 Base Appropriations: $1,023,746,221
FY 2026 Budget Need
- Legislative Initiatives and Programming: $9,260,000
- Strong Readers Act (SB 362, 2024): $5,500,000
- Concurrent Enrollment Participation Expansion: $3,760,000
- Strategic Funding: $85,740,000
- Critical Workforce Needs: $42,040,000
- STEM and Other Critical Workforce Degrees and Credentials: $19,440,000
- Nursing and Healthcare Instruction and Workforce Needs: $10,000,000
- Adult Degree Completion Outreach and Financial Aid: $12,600,000
- Institutional Excellence and Student Success: $43,700,000
- Performance-Based Formula Allocations: $25,000,000
- Student Support/Career Navigators/FAFSA Completion/Scholarships: $12,500,000
- Innovation, Technology and Efficiency Initiatives: $2,700,000
- Campus Safety, Security and Cybersecurity: $3,500,000
- Critical Workforce Needs: $42,040,000
FY 2026 Total Budget Need: $1,118,746,221
- $ Difference from FY 2025 State Appropriation: $95,000,000
- % Difference from FY 2025 State Appropriation: 9.3%
FY26 Deferred Maintenance Projects from OCAMP Revised Apportionment (all colleges & universities): $101,250,000
Institution-Specific Allocations: $301,500,000
- State Regents Agency 605 Modernization and Upgrades: $2,000,000
- Establishment of Collaboration and Consolidation Assistance Fund: $3,500,000
- Research Universities
- University of Oklahoma: $75,000,000
- Oklahoma State University: $75,000,000
- Regional Universities – Workforce Investment for Allocation: $55,000,000
- Two-Year Colleges – Workforce Investment for Allocation: $11,000,000
- Constituent Agencies – Operating, Capital: $80,000,000