Data
The Almanac, 2020-2021
The Chronicle’s annual compendium of data
Explore the sections below, and visit The Chronicle Store to get your copy of the print or interactive PDF editions. You can also purchase data sets from which the tables and charts were produced.
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.