National Center for Education Statistics

Table 32. 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 2021
Employment status and faculty status		All institutions	4-year				2-year
			Public	Private			Public	Private
				Nonprofit	For-profit			Nonprofit	For-profit
All instructional staff		1,370,285	608,187	437,517	53,141		256,592	2,659	12,189
Full-time		725,014	388,445	229,217	10,441		89,879	1,316	5,716
With faculty status		713,058	384,956	224,629	9,572		88,620	1,046	4,235
With tenure		296,701	176,298	84,708	60		35,586	49	0
On tenure track		119,500	67,479	40,630	23		11,338	30	0
Not on tenure track		207,856	131,138	69,426	560		6,635	97	0
No tenure system		89,001	10,041	29,865	8,929		35,061	870	4,235
Without faculty status		10,986	3,489	4,073	767		1,253	169	1,235
Faculty status not collected1		970	0	515	102		6	101	246
Part-time		645,271	219,742	208,300	42,700		166,713	1,343	6,473
With faculty status		508,575	183,264	150,987	37,161		131,658	798	4,707
With tenure		5,889	4,160	1,398	0		330	1	0
On tenure track		1,724	832	773	0		119	0	0
Not on tenure track		357,704	162,808	106,866	5,894		81,847	289	0
No tenure system		143,258	15,464	41,950	31,267		49,362	508	4,707
Without faculty status		132,305	36,478	55,233	4,437		35,043	221	893
Faculty status not collected1		4,391	0	2,080	1,102		12	324	873

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 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. 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).