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Data, facts and figures from higher education.
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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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Our analysis offers a sector-by-sector look at changes in average annual pay for workers in noninstructional jobs from 2012-13 to 2022-23.
Pay Update
See the latest federal data on compensation for all ranks of the profession at thousands of American colleges.
At Home Abroad
More than 100 countries hosted at least one American student every year, but Britain, Italy, and Spain were perennial favorite destinations, according to an analysis of decades of data.
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A data snapshot highlights trends in graduates’ wages and employment, among other factors.
Our annual investigation into the most consequential developments in higher education.
Leadership
Amy Gutmann earned nearly $23 million in 2021, her last full year as president of the University of Pennsylvania, according to federal tax filings.
Back in the Black
The average one-year gain for endowments in the 2023 fiscal year was 7.7 percent.
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Bowdoin College was the top producer of students among baccalaureate institutions for the fourth year in a row.
Double Dip?
The Census had once forecast the contingent of 18-year-olds rebounding in the middle of the next decade. Its latest projections show the population shrinking further.
