National Center for Education Statistics

Table 31. Number of instructional staff at Title IV degree-granting institutions and administrative offices, by level and control of institution or administrative office, employment status, and faculty status: United States, fall 2018
Employment status and faculty status		All institutions	4-year				2-year
			Public	Private			Public	Private
				Nonprofit	For-profit			Nonprofit	For-profit
All instructional staff		1,423,297	599,003	442,896	58,247		307,236	3,518	12,397
Full-time		731,440	381,288	232,455	10,475		100,514	1,618	5,090
With faculty status		719,626	378,123	227,774	9,739		99,367	925	3,698
With tenure		299,258	174,862	86,911	63		37,361	61	0
On tenure track		130,937	73,022	43,839	18		14,025	33	0
Not on tenure track		199,614	123,796	67,003	446		8,252	117	0
No tenure system		89,817	6,443	30,021	9,212		39,729	714	3,698
Without faculty status		10,638	3,136	4,105	565		1,141	602	1,089
Faculty status not collected1		1,176	29	576	171		6	91	303
Part-time		691,857	217,715	210,441	47,772		206,722	1,900	7,307
With faculty status		543,705	183,983	149,843	42,218		161,712	976	4,973
With tenure		5,956	4,191	1,437	0		327	1	0
On tenure track		1,738	944	702	0		92	0	0
Not on tenure track		380,191	165,095	110,385	5,143		99,529	39	0
No tenure system		155,820	13,753	37,319	37,075		61,764	936	4,973
Without faculty status		143,078	33,643	58,796	3,692		44,991	527	1,429
Faculty status not collected1		5,074	89	1,802	1,862		19	397	905

¹Institutions and administrative offices with less than 15 full-time staff do not report counts by faculty status.

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. 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=2018.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Spring 2019, Human Resources component (final data).