Aug. 21, 2020

Our new survey reveals how faculty members and administrators view the quality of education this spring, what they need to do to improve, and how they’re feeling about the fall.

If higher ed’s share of the Cares Act was $100, this is how the money would be divided.

What is the state of colleges, faculty members, and students in America in 2020? What can a detailed look at growing student-loan debt tell us about borrowers? How has the Covid-19 pandemic influenced higher education?

This year’s faculty data cover diversity, faculty characteristics, and pay. New this year is a table on the ratio of graduate assistants to faculty members at public and private doctoral and master’s institutions.

Enrollment, aid, and student characteristics are the focus of this year’s data. New tables include three on Pell Grant recipients: by family income, which colleges in each sector enrolled the most, and how the average Pell Grant has changed over time.

This year’s outcomes data cover degrees, graduates, and debt. New tables this year look at student-loan debt across age groups, sizes of debt, loan statuses, and which sectors produce the most debt.

Administration data cover staff pay, executive pay, and staff characteristics, such as diversity. New this year are tables that examine the racial and gender composition of noninstructional staff members.

The data in this year’s section cover tuition and fees, donations and endowments, and revenue and expenditures. A new table examines colleges with the greatest gaps between instruction spending and tuition revenue.

Data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia cover statewide demographics, as well as faculty pay by position and student enrollment by race and ethnicity.