Table 258.

Total and full-time-equivalent (FTE) staff and FTE student/FTE staff ratios in degree-granting institutions, by control of institution and primary occupation: Fall 1976, fall 1999, and fall 2009

Control of institution and primary occupation	Fall 1976					Fall 1999				Fall 2009
	Total		Full-time	Full-time-equivalent (FTE)		Total		Full-time-equivalent (FTE)		Total		Full-time-equivalent (FTE)
	Number	Per- cent		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	2,883,175	100.0	2,285,525	4.8	3,723,419	100.0	2,884,785	5.4
Professional staff	1,073,119	57.6	709,400	845,456	9.8	1,950,861	67.7	1,467,852	7.5	2,782,149	74.7	2,049,529	7.6
Executive/administrative/managerial	101,263	5.4	97,003	98,972	84.0	159,888	5.5	156,571	69.9	230,579	6.2	226,095	68.5
Faculty (instruction/research/public      service)	633,210	34.0	434,071	500,533	16.6	1,027,830	35.6	736,584	14.9	1,439,144	38.7	966,852	16.0
Graduate assistants	160,086	8.6	28,007	82,684	100.5	239,738	8.3	99,133	110.4	342,393	9.2	141,977	109.1
Other professionals	178,560	9.6	150,319	163,267	50.9	523,405	18.2	475,564	23.0	770,033	20.7	714,605	21.7
Nonprofessional staff	790,671	42.4	630,511	695,883	11.9	932,314	32.3	817,674	13.4	941,270	25.3	835,256	18.6
Public	1,329,122	100.0	946,354	1,092,558	5.8	1,988,809	100.0	1,550,190	5.2	2,442,076	100.0	1,868,956	5.8
Professional staff	769,836	57.9	502,325	601,942	10.5	1,352,325	68.0	994,132	8.1	1,804,718	73.9	1,309,452	8.2
Executive/administrative/managerial	60,733	4.6	58,649	59,579	106.6	85,795	4.3	84,110	95.4	112,182	4.6	109,543	98.1
Faculty (instruction/research/public      service)	448,733	33.8	313,367	357,761	17.7	713,325	35.9	507,630	15.8	913,679	37.4	621,181	17.3
Graduate assistants	127,925	9.6	19,076	63,420	100.1	200,563	10.1	81,707	98.2	275,872	11.3	112,388	95.7
Other professionals	132,445	10.0	111,233	121,182	52.4	352,642	17.7	320,684	25.0	502,985	20.6	466,340	23.1
Nonprofessional staff	559,286	42.1	444,029	490,616	12.9	636,484	32.0	556,058	14.4	637,358	26.1	559,504	19.2
Private	534,668	100.0	393,557	448,781	4.4	894,366	100.0	735,335	4.0	1,281,343	100.0	1,015,829	4.7
Professional staff	303,283	56.7	207,075	243,514	8.1	598,536	66.9	473,720	6.2	977,431	76.3	740,077	6.4
Executive/administrative/managerial	40,530	7.6	38,354	39,393	49.8	74,093	8.3	72,461	40.3	118,397	9.2	116,551	40.7
Faculty (instruction/research/public      service)	184,477	34.5	120,704	142,772	13.7	314,505	35.2	228,954	12.8	525,465	41.0	345,671	13.7
Graduate assistants	32,161	6.0	8,931	19,264	101.9	39,175	4.4	17,426	167.8	66,521	5.2	29,589	160.4
Other professionals	46,115	8.6	39,086	42,085	46.6	170,763	19.1	154,879	18.9	267,048	20.8	248,265	19.1
Nonprofessional staff	231,385	43.3	186,482	205,267	9.6	295,830	33.1	261,615	11.2	303,912	23.7	275,752	17.2

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 1999 and 2009. 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; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Staff Survey" (IPEDS-S:99); and IPEDS Winter 2009-10, Human Resources component, Fall Staff section. (This table was prepared August 2010.)