Table 244.

Total and full-time-equivalent staff in degree-granting institutions, by employment status, control of institution, and occupation: Fall 1976, fall 1997, and fall 2007

Control of institution and primary occupation	Fall 1976					Fall 1997				Fall 2007
	Total			Full-time-equivalent (FTE)		Total		Full-time-equivalent (FTE)		Total		Full-time-equivalent (FTE)
	Number	Per-cent	Full-time	Total	FTE stu-dents per FTE staff	Number	Per-cent	Total	FTE stu-dents per FTE staff	Number	Per-cent	Total	FTE stu-dents per FTE staff
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
All institutions	1,863,790	100.0	1,339,911	1,541,339	5.4	2,752,504	100.0	2,179,536	4.9	3,561,428	100.0	2,762,069	5.0
Professional staff	1,073,119	57.6	709,400	845,456	9.8	1,835,916	66.7	1,377,136	7.7	2,629,401	73.8	1,935,211	7.1
Executive/administrative/managerial	101,263	5.4	97,003	98,972	84.0	151,363	5.5	147,673	71.9	217,518	6.1	213,610	64.5
Faculty (instruction/research/public      service)	633,210	34.0	434,071	500,533	16.6	989,813	36.0	709,048	15.0	1,371,390	38.5	927,178	14.9
Graduate assistants	160,086	8.6	28,007	82,684	100.5	222,724	8.1	92,108	115.2	328,979	9.2	136,364	101.1
Other professionals	178,560	9.6	150,319	163,267	50.9	472,016	17.1	428,307	24.8	711,514	20.0	658,059	20.9
Nonprofessional staff	790,671	42.4	630,511	695,883	11.9	916,588	33.3	802,400	13.2	932,027	26.2	826,858	16.7
Public	1,329,122	100.0	946,354	1,092,558	5.8	1,930,747	100.0	1,504,764	5.2	2,362,483	100.0	1,811,840	5.4
Professional staff	769,836	57.9	502,325	601,942	10.5	1,291,339	66.9	948,674	8.3	1,728,266	73.2	1,255,632	7.8
Executive/administrative/managerial	60,733	4.6	58,649	59,579	106.6	84,806	4.4	82,696	95.2	108,727	4.6	106,710	91.3
Faculty (instruction/research/public      service)	448,733	33.8	313,367	357,761	17.7	694,560	36.0	494,390	15.9	877,146	37.1	601,617	16.2
Graduate assistants	127,925	9.6	19,076	63,420	100.1	186,042	9.6	75,792	103.8	266,429	11.3	108,541	89.7
Other professionals	132,445	10.0	111,233	121,182	52.4	325,931	16.9	295,796	26.6	475,964	20.1	438,765	22.2
Nonprofessional staff	559,286	42.1	444,029	490,616	12.9	639,408	33.1	556,090	14.2	634,217	26.8	556,207	17.5
Private	534,668	100.0	393,557	448,781	4.4	821,757	100.0	674,772	4.1	1,198,945	100.0	950,229	4.3
Professional staff	303,283	56.7	207,075	243,514	8.1	544,577	66.3	428,462	6.4	901,135	75.2	679,579	5.9
Executive/administrative/managerial	40,530	7.6	38,354	39,393	49.8	66,557	8.1	64,977	42.2	108,791	9.1	106,900	37.8
Faculty (instruction/research/public      service)	184,477	34.5	120,704	142,772	13.7	295,253	35.9	214,658	12.8	494,244	41.2	325,561	12.4
Graduate assistants	32,161	6.0	8,931	19,264	101.9	36,682	4.5	16,317	168.2	62,550	5.2	27,823	145.3
Other professionals	46,115	8.6	39,086	42,085	46.6	146,085	17.8	132,511	20.7	235,550	19.6	219,295	18.4
Nonprofessional staff	231,385	43.3	186,482	205,267	9.6	277,180	33.7	246,310	11.1	297,810	24.8	270,650	14.9

NOTE: Full-time-equivalent staff is the full-time staff, plus the full-time equivalent of the part-time staff. Data for 1976 are for institutions of higher education, while later data are for degree-granting institutions. Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, but it includes more 2-year colleges and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not grant degrees. (See Appendix A: Guide to Sources for details.) Beginning in 2007, includes institutions with fewer than 15 full-time employees; these institutions did not report staff data prior to 2007. By definition, all graduate assistants are part time in 1997 and 2007. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Staff Survey" 1976; and 1997 and 2007 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Fall Staff Survey" (IPEDS-S:97), and Winter 2007-08. (This table was prepared October 2008.)