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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.
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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Data analysis
We analyzed the educational backgrounds of every current and incoming member of Congress. Here’s what we found.
The Review | Opinion
In the era of race-neutral admissions, data from entering classes don’t add up.
Shifting right
In 2020, 62 percent of them voted for President Biden. In 2024, 52 percent supported Trump — a swing of 19 percentage points.
Admissions and Enrollment
New research reveals that socioeconomic diversity has long been stagnant at prominent colleges — and that the SAT hasn’t been an equalizer.
Listening In
The trend marks the latest example of tech development outpacing governance.
Student Aid
A new survey sheds more light on the impact of the federal-aid crisis.
Data
The gap between how college graduates and non-college graduates voted was even wider than the past two presidential elections, per exit polls — but the pattern is limited to white voters.
Data
A Chronicle project explores how professors’ purchasing power is affected by the cost of living.
Extremely online
When a study challenged his bestselling book’s thesis — that social media harms kids — the New York University psychologist fired back. That was just the beginning.
Expanding access
The Common Application tried new outreach strategies to connect underrepresented students with private scholarships.