More than 80 percent of faculty members at four-year for-profit institutions worked part time, compared with less than a third at four-year public institutions. Among sectors, four-year public institutions had the highest share of faculty members — just over 44 percent — who were either tenured or on the tenure track.
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| 4-year public | full-time | 189,546 | 30.7% | 76,619 | 12.4% | 161,514 | 26.2% | 427,679 | 69.2% |
| 4-year public | part-time | 4,825 | 0.8% | 1,304 | 0.2% | 183,833 | 29.8% | 189,962 | 30.8% |
| 4-year public | total | 194,371 | 31.5% | 77,923 | 12.6% | 345,347 | 55.9% | 617,641 | 100.0% |
| 4-year private nonprofit | full-time | 90,877 | 23.3% | 43,821 | 11.2% | 110,118 | 28.2% | 244,816 | 62.7% |
| 4-year private nonprofit | part-time | 1,433 | 0.4% | 551 | 0.1% | 143,947 | 36.8% | 145,931 | 37.3% |
| 4-year private nonprofit | total | 92,310 | 23.6% | 44,372 | 11.4% | 254,065 | 65.0% | 390,747 | 100.0% |
| 4-year for-profit | full-time | 94 | 0.1% | 42 | 0.1% | 12,380 | 17.8% | 12,516 | 18.0% |
| 4-year for-profit | part-time | 1 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 56,948 | 82.0% | 56,949 | 82.0% |
| 4-year for-profit | total | 95 | 0.1% | 42 | 0.1% | 69,328 | 99.8% | 69,465 | 100.0% |
| 2-year public | full-time | 41,403 | 14.5% | 14,925 | 5.2% | 53,371 | 18.8% | 109,699 | 38.5% |
| 2-year public | part-time | 167 | 0.1% | 73 | 0.0% | 174,678 | 61.4% | 174,918 | 61.5% |
| 2-year public | total | 41,570 | 14.6% | 14,998 | 5.3% | 228,049 | 80.1% | 284,617 | 100.0% |
| 2-year private nonprofit | full-time | 80 | 3.2% | 37 | 1.5% | 1,301 | 52.1% | 1,418 | 56.8% |
| 2-year private nonprofit | part-time | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 0.0% | 1,077 | 43.1% | 1,078 | 43.2% |
| 2-year private nonprofit | total | 80 | 3.2% | 38 | 1.5% | 2,378 | 95.3% | 2,496 | 100.0% |
| 2-year for-profit | full-time | 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 5,226 | 43.1% | 5,229 | 43.1% |
| 2-year for-profit | part-time | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 6,897 | 56.9% | 6,897 | 56.9% |
| 2-year for-profit | total | 3 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 12,123 | 100.0% | 12,126 | 100.0% |
| All institutions | full-time | 322,003 | 23.4% | 135,444 | 9.8% | 343,910 | 25.0% | 801,357 | 58.2% |
| All institutions | part-time | 6,426 | 0.5% | 1,929 | 0.1% | 567,380 | 41.2% | 575,735 | 41.8% |
| All institutions | total | 328,429 | 23.8% | 137,373 | 10.0% | 911,290 | 66.2% | 1,377,092 | 100.0% |
Note: The data cover medical and nonmedical staff who perform faculty duties like instruction, research, and/or public service at 4,367 degree-granting institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in the Title IV federal student-aid program. Medical schools are counted in the data. Employees listed as “not on tenure track” include those who work at colleges with no tenure system. Non-tenure-track faculty members include adjuncts. Percentage columns show the percentage of faculty members with a particular status within the indicated sector. More data are available here. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data</small></p>