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Table 6. Number of staff at Title IV institutions and administrative offices, by control and level of institution or administrative office, medical school staff status, occupational category, and employment status: United States, fall 2021
Occupational category and employment status						Private
		Public				Nonprofit				For-profit
		4-year				4-year				4-year
	All institutions	Staff not in medical schools¹	Medical school¹ staff	2-year	Less-than- 2-year	Staff not in medical schools¹	Medical school¹ staff	2-year	Less-than- 2-year	Staff not in medical schools¹	Medical school¹ staff	2-year	Less-than- 2-year
All staff	3,874,123	1,762,469	269,844	485,013	12,904	1,008,365	186,728	7,666	1,560	84,430	268	27,335	27,541
Full-time	2,569,099	1,172,432	222,752	254,468	7,329	670,274	157,877	5,355	1,240	38,913	198	18,266	19,995
Part-time	1,305,024	590,037	47,092	230,545	5,575	338,091	28,851	2,311	320	45,517	70	9,069	7,546
Instruction	1,400,631	531,121	77,093	261,172	7,116	383,984	53,458	3,462	687	53,013	128	14,880	14,517
Full-time	741,907	325,233	63,227	92,251	2,955	187,759	41,535	1,743	457	10,361	80	7,234	9,072
Part-time	658,724	205,888	13,866	168,921	4,161	196,225	11,923	1,719	230	42,652	48	7,646	5,445
Research	95,895	42,381	17,262	168	—	23,399	12,638	7	—	23	1	16	—
Full-time	85,797	36,584	15,619	153	—	21,320	12,080	7	—	17	1	16	—
Part-time	10,098	5,797	1,643	15	—	2,079	558	0	—	6	0	0	—
Public service	33,078	9,465	8,352	2,491	—	1,959	10,779	2	—	19	0	11	—
Full-time	26,222	7,958	7,296	363	—	1,220	9,368	2	—	6	0	9	—
Part-time	6,856	1,507	1,056	2,128	—	739	1,411	0	—	13	0	2	—
Librarians, curators, and archivists	37,440	17,080	264	4,540	18	14,419	348	87	18	455	6	139	66
Full-time	32,360	15,634	247	3,054	9	12,534	324	67	14	333	4	91	49
Part-time	5,080	1,446	17	1,486	9	1,885	24	20	4	122	2	48	17
Student and academic affairs and other education services occupations	177,773	69,642	3,864	41,948	1,305	45,124	2,336	979	209	7,967	24	2,419	1,956
Full-time	126,987	53,785	3,231	20,595	950	34,622	1,794	801	192	7,232	21	2,136	1,628
Part-time	50,786	15,857	633	21,353	355	10,502	542	178	17	735	3	283	328
Management occupations	271,536	114,230	12,803	30,792	887	87,754	11,548	895	211	6,092	37	3,124	3,163
Full-time	265,097	111,805	12,351	29,875	801	85,859	11,257	868	201	6,002	29	3,071	2,978
Part-time	6,439	2,425	452	917	86	1,895	291	27	10	90	8	53	185
Business and financial operations occupations	230,110	120,858	16,830	16,313	352	58,945	10,867	296	72	2,861	6	1,350	1,360
Full-time	218,702	114,937	15,972	14,729	300	56,653	10,537	248	68	2,765	5	1,282	1,206
Part-time	11,408	5,921	858	1,584	52	2,292	330	48	4	96	1	68	154
Computer, engineering, and science occupations	239,662	118,535	31,054	13,366	181	52,933	21,662	119	32	1,459	7	202	112
Full-time	223,431	110,567	28,787	11,789	159	49,863	20,450	113	31	1,397	6	179	90
Part-time	16,231	7,968	2,267	1,577	22	3,070	1,212	6	1	62	1	23	22
Community, social service, legal, arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	192,273	89,675	5,293	21,308	205	69,913	2,536	167	19	2,705	0	263	189
Full-time	160,873	79,161	4,722	15,785	180	55,989	2,134	124	17	2,358	0	244	159
Part-time	31,400	10,514	571	5,523	25	13,924	402	43	2	347	0	19	30
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	115,562	32,673	44,556	1,428	161	12,667	23,781	31	9	101	16	28	111
Full-time	98,644	27,320	40,593	673	75	10,064	19,764	15	7	77	12	9	35
Part-time	16,918	5,353	3,963	755	86	2,603	4,017	16	2	24	4	19	76
Service occupations	220,293	111,491	8,106	27,829	814	63,090	6,303	277	40	1,262	0	459	622
Full-time	190,272	99,386	7,605	20,529	548	54,551	5,838	162	31	996	0	252	374
Part-time	30,021	12,105	501	7,300	266	8,539	465	115	9	266	0	207	248
Sales and related occupations	12,348	2,245	119	1,242	72	2,808	37	479	58	2,425	0	1,350	1,513
Full-time	10,378	1,700	56	797	37	2,299	33	476	54	2,385	0	1,251	1,290
Part-time	1,970	545	63	445	35	509	4	3	4	40	0	99	223
Office and administrative support occupations	370,128	161,698	24,060	55,899	1,383	91,113	23,190	812	175	5,263	43	2,888	3,604
Full-time	309,697	136,834	22,238	38,437	1,039	78,742	21,725	690	155	4,575	40	2,331	2,891
Part-time	60,431	24,864	1,822	17,462	344	12,371	1,465	122	20	688	3	557	713
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	67,919	43,510	561	5,290	282	16,585	780	46	21	347	0	194	303
Full-time	64,334	41,690	553	4,679	209	15,765	723	39	5	309	0	157	205
Part-time	3,585	1,820	8	611	73	820	57	7	16	38	0	37	98
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	17,205	11,074	277	1,211	128	4,011	324	7	9	128	0	11	25
Full-time	14,398	9,838	255	759	67	3,034	315	0	8	100	0	4	18
Part-time	2,807	1,236	22	452	61	977	9	7	1	28	0	7	7
Graduate assistants² – teaching plus various categories	392,270	286,791	19,350	16	0	79,661	6,141	0	0	310	0	1	0
Full-time	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Part-time	392,270	286,791	19,350	16	0	79,661	6,141	0	0	310	0	1	0

— Not available. Data were not collected.

† Not applicable. By definition, graduate assistants are part-time only.

1Medical schools are defined as those that grant degrees in Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and/or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) programs. Also includes health or allied health schools or departments that are affiliated with (housed in or under the authority of) the medical school. There are no medical schools at 2-year or less-than-2-year institutions.

2By definition, all graduate assistants are part-time.

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. United States includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public and are included in this table. Military-specific occupations (Standard Occupational Classification [SOC] code 55-0000) are part of the SOC system but are not applicable to the IPEDS Human Resources (HR) component because IPEDS HR collects data on civilian staff. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2022, Human Resources component (provisional data).

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