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Table 19. 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 2017
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	3,979,018	1,748,406	240,959	587,804	11,873	1,031,151	171,260	9,251	1,872	111,874	177	34,587	29,804
Full-time	2,572,690	1,156,729	198,610	286,256	6,680	682,953	142,514	6,341	1,458	49,597	143	20,848	20,561
Part-time	1,406,328	591,677	42,349	301,548	5,193	348,198	28,746	2,910	414	62,277	34	13,739	9,243
Instruction	1,458,541	517,319	67,138	318,609	6,337	389,315	50,064	4,363	818	69,603	86	19,721	15,168
Full-time	742,133	318,050	55,547	104,981	2,720	190,705	39,534	2,103	518	11,270	52	8,166	8,487
Part-time	716,408	199,269	11,591	213,628	3,617	198,610	10,530	2,260	300	58,333	34	11,555	6,681
Research	90,134	39,313	16,023	111	—	21,585	12,996	12	—	62	0	32	—
Full-time	75,975	32,304	13,987	101	—	18,649	10,847	9	—	47	0	31	—
Part-time	14,159	7,009	2,036	10	—	2,936	2,149	3	—	15	0	1	—
Public service	29,109	9,842	6,510	3,399	—	1,949	7,356	9	—	29	0	15	—
Full-time	21,456	8,051	5,597	497	—	1,152	6,147	6	—	4	0	2	—
Part-time	7,653	1,791	913	2,902	—	797	1,209	3	—	25	0	13	—
Librarians, curators, and archivists	41,661	18,065	333	5,232	22	16,391	367	130	31	781	0	247	62
Full-time	35,592	16,624	306	3,559	12	13,917	343	80	30	526	0	157	38
Part-time	6,069	1,441	27	1,673	10	2,474	24	50	1	255	0	90	24
Student and academic affairs and other education services occupations	188,019	67,097	3,174	51,254	1,240	47,165	2,155	1,565	232	9,223	0	2,487	2,427
Full-time	128,482	51,505	2,573	22,273	882	35,538	1,501	1,424	211	8,304	0	2,198	2,073
Part-time	59,537	15,592	601	28,981	358	11,627	654	141	21	919	0	289	354
Management occupations	265,594	106,104	11,261	32,175	771	88,960	10,403	910	230	7,958	0	3,351	3,471
Full-time	258,495	103,298	10,820	31,057	686	86,993	10,118	884	221	7,838	0	3,273	3,307
Part-time	7,099	2,806	441	1,118	85	1,967	285	26	9	120	0	78	164
Business and financial operations occupations	217,167	111,923	15,413	17,035	297	55,808	9,004	268	84	4,413	0	1,432	1,490
Full-time	203,903	104,765	14,377	15,250	252	53,451	8,615	227	78	4,268	0	1,316	1,304
Part-time	13,264	7,158	1,036	1,785	45	2,357	389	41	6	145	0	116	186
Computer, engineering, and science occupations	236,410	118,508	27,764	15,908	189	52,930	18,663	139	24	1,880	0	262	143
Full-time	217,331	109,243	25,236	13,409	157	49,480	17,517	129	22	1,811	0	220	107
Part-time	19,079	9,265	2,528	2,499	32	3,450	1,146	10	2	69	0	42	36
Community, social service, legal, arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	184,061	82,682	4,643	23,640	182	64,678	2,338	209	40	4,623	0	887	139
Full-time	149,509	72,058	3,939	16,126	124	49,854	2,125	166	31	4,232	0	766	88
Part-time	34,552	10,624	704	7,514	58	14,824	213	43	9	391	0	121	51
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	110,705	33,833	39,527	1,654	308	12,259	22,655	44	26	93	81	108	117
Full-time	91,791	27,691	35,089	819	121	9,433	18,389	23	9	46	81	47	43
Part-time	18,914	6,142	4,438	835	187	2,826	4,266	21	17	47	0	61	74
Service occupations	244,232	119,820	8,700	33,708	883	71,314	6,414	250	51	1,688	0	585	819
Full-time	203,055	103,967	7,607	23,328	556	59,749	5,707	136	41	1,196	0	282	486
Part-time	41,177	15,853	1,093	10,380	327	11,565	707	114	10	492	0	303	333
Sales and related occupations	15,237	2,757	156	1,910	20	3,891	7	493	70	2,744	0	1,590	1,599
Full-time	12,431	2,142	101	1,009	13	3,220	6	487	68	2,675	0	1,386	1,324
Part-time	2,806	615	55	901	7	671	1	6	2	69	0	204	275
Office and administrative support occupations	426,866	180,169	24,722	75,338	1,304	106,602	22,358	762	245	7,811	10	3,567	3,978
Full-time	346,449	150,870	22,570	47,399	946	90,465	20,630	594	209	6,921	10	2,800	3,035
Part-time	80,417	29,299	2,152	27,939	358	16,137	1,728	168	36	890	0	767	943
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	74,997	47,869	591	6,371	192	18,100	781	76	13	373	0	274	357
Full-time	70,575	45,483	580	5,604	138	17,180	734	66	12	338	0	190	250
Part-time	4,422	2,386	11	767	54	920	47	10	1	35	0	84	107
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	19,236	12,409	311	1,445	128	4,363	314	14	8	181	0	29	34
Full-time	15,513	10,678	281	844	73	3,167	301	7	8	121	0	14	19
Part-time	3,723	1,731	30	601	55	1,196	13	7	0	60	0	15	15
Graduate assistants² – teaching plus various categories	377,049	280,696	14,693	15	0	75,841	5,385	7	0	412	0	0	0
Full-time	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†	†
Part-time	377,049	280,696	14,693	15	0	75,841	5,385	7	0	412	0	0	0

— Not available. Data were not collected.

† Not applicable.

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 collection year’s archived downloadable glossary located at https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data/annual-survey-forms-packages-archived?year=2017.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2018, Human Resources component (final data).

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