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We analyzed the educational backgrounds of every current and incoming member of Congress. Here’s what we found.

The Chronicle's Faculty-Pay Transparency Tool

By Jacquelyn Elias November 6, 2024
Explore the faculty-pay transparency tool.

Data Points: Trending Topics to Watch

How has inflation impacted higher education? Which institutions spent a billion dollars or more on research and development? Who do colleges think their peers are? A look at where things stand.

Throughout the many reports of declining enrollment during the pandemic, graduate education has been an unexpected bright spot.
The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for nearly 1,500 institutions from the 2022-23 year.
Campus protests and polarization were seen as the lowest-priority issue among senior administrators in a new survey.
Maryland was one of two states whose population turned majority nonwhite over the past decade.
Twenty-one institutions spent at least $1 billion on research and development in 2020, according to a new federal report.
It’s eaten into endowment gains, increases in state support, and average faculty salaries.

Multi-Year Visualizations of the Higher Ed Landscape

Statistics on the gender, race, and ethnicity of such staff members, including office and administrative support, business and financial operations, maintenance, and more, in 2018 and 2022.
Here’s how wages have changed over the past five years for those who work in sectors such as business and financial operations, management, and education services.
A look at changes in average annual percentages of full-time instructors who were members of specific racial and ethnic groups in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, by degree-granting college.
A growing number of colleges have at least 10 percent of students reporting a disability.
State and federal support has declined as a share of overall revenue — putting a greater burden on students. See the trends at more than 1,500 institutions between 2002 and 2022.
Explore this searchable, sortable table showing the race, ethnicity, and gender of full-time faculty members at 3,300 colleges and universities since 2018.
Explore new data on the race, ethnicity, and gender of students at more than 3,800 colleges and universities.
We’ve just updated our statistical snapshot of bachelor’s degrees conferred by colleges in 32 disciplines over time, from 2018 to 2022.
Statistical snapshots of bachelor’s degrees conferred by colleges in 32 disciplines over time, from 2018 to 2020.
We’ve just updated our statistical snapshots of minority employees in higher education, reflecting figures from 2018 to 2022.

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