Non-Hispanic whites made up more than three-quarters of full-time managers at colleges in 2017-18, and more than half of all full-time managers were female. Blacks, Hispanics, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and people of two or more races had their highest percentages of full-time managers in the two-year for-profit sector. American Indians/Alaska Natives had their highest-percentage representation in the two-year private nonprofit sector, and Asians in the four-year private nonprofit sector. No racial or ethnic minority group except Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders had an overall representation among managers that came close to their representation in the U.S. population.
| Sector | Total | Female | American Indian or Alaska Native | Asian | Black or African- American | Hispanic or Latino | Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | White | 2 or more races |
| 4-year public (747 institutions) | 111,363 | 61,193 | 630 | 4,357 | 11,804 | 6,683 | 187 | 83,875 | 1,094 |
| 4-year public, percentage | 100.0% | 54.9% | 0.6% | 4.0% | 10.9% | 6.2% | 0.2% | 77.2% | 1.0% |
| 4-year private nonprofit (1,588 institutions) | 97,008 | 55,075 | 268 | 4,208 | 8,552 | 5,339 | 161 | 74,147 | 1,073 |
| 4-year private nonprofit, percentage | 100.0% | 56.8% | 0.3% | 4.5% | 9.1% | 5.7% | 0.2% | 79.1% | 1.1% |
| 4-year for-profit (464 institutions) | 7,583 | 4,344 | 19 | 321 | 752 | 614 | 32 | 5,385 | 124 |
| 4-year for-profit, percentage | 100.0% | 57.3% | 0.3% | 4.4% | 10.4% | 8.5% | 0.4% | 74.3% | 1.7% |
| 2-year public (876 institutions) | 29,747 | 17,604 | 260 | 732 | 3,950 | 2,251 | 55 | 21,603 | 250 |
| 2-year public, percentage | 100.0% | 59.2% | 0.9% | 2.5% | 13.6% | 7.7% | 0.2% | 74.2% | 0.9% |
| 2-year private nonprofit (98 institutions) | 759 | 419 | 14 | 24 | 103 | 53 | 3 | 531 | 8 |
| 2-year private nonprofit, percentage | 100.0% | 55.2% | 1.9% | 3.3% | 14.0% | 7.2% | 0.4% | 72.1% | 1.1% |
| 2-year for-profit (504 institutions) | 2,516 | 1,487 | 11 | 94 | 408 | 281 | 14 | 1,575 | 59 |
| 2-year for-profit, percentage | 100.0% | 59.1% | 0.5% | 3.8% | 16.7% | 11.5% | 0.6% | 64.5% | 2.4% |
| All 4,277 institutions | 248,976 | 140,122 | 1,202 | 9,736 | 25,569 | 15,221 | 452 | 187,116 | 2,608 |
| All institutions, percentage | 100.0% | 56.3% | 0.5% | 4.0% | 10.6% | 6.3% | 0.2% | 77.4% | 1.1% |
Note: This table shows all full-time managers at two-year and four-year degree-granting institutions in the United States that were eligible to receive Title IV federal financial aid in 2017-18. The definition of managers is based on the “Management Occupations” category of the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification Manual published by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau generally defines “education administrators, postsecondary” as people who “plan, direct, or coordinate research, instructional, student administration and services, and other educational activities at postsecondary institutions.” On college campuses, “managers” may include such job titles as president, provost, dean, research director, registrar, director of fund raising, director of student services, facilities managers, and computer and information-systems managers. Medical managers were excluded. Percentages of the racial or ethnic groups were calculated by dividing their numbers into the totals minus the numbers of nonresident aliens and people whose race or ethnicity was unknown. Numbers and percentages of employees of unknown race or ethnicity, which was 2.4 percent over all, and of employees who were nonresident aliens, which was 0.5 percent over all, are not shown. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to Ruth Hammond.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data
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