Education Management January 2026
~525k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~55
Organizations
These insights represent ~525k questions answered from ~55 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Education Management
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
48%
Europe
27%
Oceania
20%
Asia
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
64%
Male
35%
Non-Binary
0.73%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
68% of Education Management employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 42% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 13 and is in the bottom 30% compared with other industries.
How does Education Management compare?
People in Education Management were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making and Growth.
On the lower side, people in Education Management had much lower favorable scores than average in Company Performance, Leadership, and Company And Leadership.
People working in Education Management are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Education Management are less engaged than Medical Devices, Oil & Energy, Tech: Manufacturing & Research, and Professional Services.
The highest scoring question for Education Management had 90% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Education Management were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 17% of people disagreeing (+0% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Education Management organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
2 I am happy with my current role relative to what was described to me | Alignment & Involvement |
3 Day-to-day decisions here demonstrate that quality and improvement are top priorities | Service & Quality Focus |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 13% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+3% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
3%
3 months to 6 months
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
10%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
15%