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Base pay, bonuses, and benefits for 312 chief executives at private colleges with expenditures of $100 million or more in 2021.
Base pay, bonuses, and benefits for 178 chief executives at public doctoral universities and systems in 2023.
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.
Explore how state and federal support has declined as a share of overall revenue — putting a greater burden on students — at more than 1,500 public colleges and universities between 2002 and 2021.
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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Survey Says ...
A recent survey shows Republican and Democratic voters alike want politicians to establish alternative pathways to the middle class. It’s harder than it looks.
The Review | Essay
Here are the telltale signs of financial distress.
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About 16 percent of survey respondents were at risk of leaving in the next two years, a new report shows.
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The new report is based on data collected from 902 higher-education collective-bargaining units.
Trivia Time
Answers are drawn from The Chronicle’s newly released Almanac, our annual data-driven portrait of academe.
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America has nearly 4,000 degree-granting colleges, which can make it difficult to fully understand the sweep and diversity of the sector.
The States
Explore how the states compare with one another and with the nation on demographics, college enrollment, diversity, tuition costs, and more.
Redemption arc
Mun Y. Choi, chancellor of the University of Missouri at Columbia, managed to turn around dismal approval ratings over the last two years. How did he do it?
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Here’s a look at the 102 colleges with at least 20,000 undergraduates.
Enrollment
But in a bright spot for higher ed, more of those former students returned to college from 2022 to 2023, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.