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How Diverse Are the Faculty at the Largest Colleges?

Explore the share of minority instructors — and how it’s changed over the years.

June 4, 2025

Here’s a look at changes in average annual percentages of full-time faculty members who were members of specific racial and ethnic groups in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The percentages of minority faculty members at the colleges in each degree-granting group (associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and special focus) are ordered by the largest number of total full-time faculty members for the most recent year, which is noted in parentheses. The total of minority faculty members includes those who are American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and two or more races.

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Here’s a look at changes in average annual percentages of full-time faculty members who were members of specific racial and ethnic groups in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The percentages of minority faculty members at the colleges in each degree-granting group (associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and special focus) are ordered by the largest number of total full-time faculty members for the most recent year, which is noted in parentheses. The total of minority faculty members includes those who are American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and two or more races.

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Source: Chronicle analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

About these data

Data are for degree-granting institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in Title IV federal financial-aid programs.

This visualization’s companion table, on the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at more than 3,300 colleges and universities, can be found here.

Inclusion is based on full-time faculty size for the fall of the most recent year.

“Total minority” is the percentage of all faculty members who are nonwhite and whose race is known. It includes those who are two or more races; it does not include “nonresident aliens.” Note that persons of Middle Eastern or North African descent are considered white in federal data.

The full titles of the racial and ethnic categories are: white non-Hispanic; Black or African American non-Hispanic; Hispanic or Latino; Asian non-Hispanic; American Indian or Alaska Native; Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander; two or more races; and race/ethnicity unknown. Those eight categories include both U.S. citizens and permanent residents. “Nonresident” covers people described by the Education Department as “nonresident aliens”: those of all racial and ethnic groups who are in the United States on a visa or temporary basis and do not have the right to remain indefinitely. A person may be counted in only one of those groups.

Type categories are from the 2021 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. “Special-focus” includes both two-year and four-year special-focus institutions. “Associate” also includes those institutions classified as “baccalaureate/associate.”

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