National Center for Education Statistics

Table 24. Number of staff at Title IV degree-granting institutions and administrative offices, by race/ethnicity, gender, and occupational cate,ry: United States, fall 2021
Gender and occupational category	All staff	American Indian or Alaska Native	Asian	Black or African American	Hispanic or Latino	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or more races	Race/ ethnicity unknown	Nonresident¹
All staff	3,816,867	18,692	272,032	369,062	326,602	7,269	2,387,933	62,329	162,639	210,309
Instruction	1,370,285	6,276	111,498	104,121	81,495	2,366	947,134	17,512	69,611	30,272
Research	95,898	186	13,180	2,653	4,596	65	42,996	1,250	4,606	26,366
Public service	33,053	127	4,064	2,355	2,022	45	21,891	482	1,141	926
Librarians, curators, and archivists	37,335	212	1,961	2,721	2,482	75	27,906	613	1,100	265
Student and academic affairs and other education services occupations	172,836	1,239	7,966	22,377	18,766	553	110,032	3,529	6,426	1,948
Management occupations	266,049	1,267	12,064	29,605	19,907	443	190,867	3,836	6,747	1,313
Business and financial operations occupations	227,775	1,157	16,028	25,281	23,386	456	147,726	4,198	7,562	1,981
Computer, engineering, and science occupations	239,143	953	28,248	15,549	19,420	358	148,040	4,324	8,525	13,726
Community, social service, legal, arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	191,607	1,050	6,407	22,592	17,480	608	130,679	3,836	7,650	1,305
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	115,147	343	12,625	11,638	10,234	144	68,693	1,919	5,877	3,674
Service occupations	218,051	1,776	8,837	46,862	38,070	677	108,020	2,996	8,933	1,880
Sales and related occupations	10,435	80	362	1,805	1,326	33	6,027	307	453	42
Office and administrative support occupations	363,078	2,334	16,581	54,006	51,171	868	217,518	7,022	10,904	2,674
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	66,979	585	1,386	6,570	7,233	158	47,505	779	2,493	270
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	16,886	144	518	2,661	1,942	49	10,619	228	646	79
Graduate assistants²	392,310	963	30,307	18,266	27,072	371	162,280	9,498	19,965	123,588
Men	1,690,441	7,886	125,540	136,168	132,253	3,157	1,063,124	24,289	75,859	122,165
Instruction	663,386	2,840	58,586	40,247	38,812	1,096	463,257	7,381	33,668	17,499
Research	53,452	81	7,299	1,092	2,126	29	23,320	526	2,399	16,580
Public service	15,566	49	2,008	819	895	22	10,516	192	535	530
Librarians, curators, and archivists	11,225	57	509	685	852	17	8,506	156	353	90
Student and academic affairs and other education services occupations	53,432	386	2,530	6,390	5,658	179	34,213	1,017	2,251	808
Management occupations	111,702	511	5,003	10,430	7,435	214	82,961	1,427	3,063	658
Business and financial operations occupations	61,773	275	3,930	5,780	6,113	122	41,378	1,068	2,444	663
Computer, engineering, and science occupations	140,769	569	14,213	8,133	11,097	252	91,150	2,403	4,963	7,989
Community, social service, legal, arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	83,959	419	2,115	10,247	6,445	297	58,572	1,447	3,832	585
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	33,312	91	4,473	2,548	2,881	43	18,683	567	2,188	1,838
Service occupations	123,793	1,080	4,479	25,530	19,135	383	65,675	1,659	5,002	850
Sales and related occupations	3,560	29	119	566	419	14	2,131	115	152	15
Office and administrative support occupations	64,967	429	3,908	9,129	10,256	141	36,114	1,511	2,627	852
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	61,472	537	1,205	5,756	6,633	141	44,065	686	2,241	208
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	13,861	118	440	2,050	1,599	33	8,870	163	523	65
Graduate assistants²	194,212	415	14,723	6,766	11,897	174	73,713	3,971	9,618	72,935

Women	2,126,426	10,806	146,492	232,894	194,349	4,112	1,324,809	38,040	86,780	88,144

Instruction	706,899	3,436	52,912	63,874	42,683	1,270	483,877	10,131	35,943	12,773
Research	42,446	105	5,881	1,561	2,470	36	19,676	724	2,207	9,786
Public service	17,487	78	2,056	1,536	1,127	23	11,375	290	606	396
Librarians, curators, and archivists	26,110	155	1,452	2,036	1,630	58	19,400	457	747	175
Student and academic affairs and other education services occupations	119,404	853	5,436	15,987	13,108	374	75,819	2,512	4,175	1,140
Management occupations	154,347	756	7,061	19,175	12,472	229	107,906	2,409	3,684	655
Business and financial operations occupations	166,002	882	12,098	19,501	17,273	334	106,348	3,130	5,118	1,318
Computer, engineering, and science occupations	98,374	384	14,035	7,416	8,323	106	56,890	1,921	3,562	5,737
Community, social service, legal, arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	107,648	631	4,292	12,345	11,035	311	72,107	2,389	3,818	720
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	81,835	252	8,152	9,090	7,353	101	50,010	1,352	3,689	1,836
Service occupations	94,258	696	4,358	21,332	18,935	294	42,345	1,337	3,931	1,030
Sales and related occupations	6,875	51	243	1,239	907	19	3,896	192	301	27
Office and administrative support occupations	298,111	1,905	12,673	44,877	40,915	727	181,404	5,511	8,277	1,822
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	5,507	48	181	814	600	17	3,440	93	252	62
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	3,025	26	78	611	343	16	1,749	65	123	14
Graduate assistants²	198,098	548	15,584	11,500	15,175	197	88,567	5,527	10,347	50,653

¹The use of "Nonresident" is for reporting purposes only and does not reflect a change in the collection of data for this category.

²Graduate assistants are reported in the “graduate assistants” category regardless of their primary duty.

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 U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy are not Title IV eligible but are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public; they are included in this table. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy is Title IV eligible and is also 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. Individuals who self-identify with more than one race are included in the "Two or more races" category. Individuals of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity are included in the "Hispanic or Latino" category regardless of race and are not included in the race categories. Individuals who are in the United States on a visa or temporary basis, and who are not authorized to remain indefinitely, are included in the "Nonresident" category regardless of race or ethnicity. 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=2021.

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

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