Higher Education APAC July 2025
~740k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~740k questions answered from ~25 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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
Higher Education
Reported gender breakdown
Female
61%
Male
39%
Non-Binary
0.26%
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.
61% of Higher Education APAC employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 28% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -3 and is in the bottom 7% compared with the overall average.
How does Higher Education APAC compare?
On the lower side, people in Higher Education APAC had much lower favorable scores than average in Company Performance, Action, and Leadership.
People working in Higher Education APAC are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe. People working in Higher Education APAC are less engaged than Ireland, New Zealand > 5000, New Tech Poland, and Europe.
The highest scoring question for Higher Education APAC had 85% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Higher Education APAC were generally least favourable about Company Performance, and were most negative towards '%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals' with 27% of people disagreeing (+14% 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 Higher Education APAC organizations.
1 At %[Company]% we act on promising new or innovative ideas | Innovation |
2 We are encouraged to be innovative even though some of our initiatives may not succeed | Innovation |
3 The leaders at %[Company]% keep people informed about what is happening | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 30% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+10% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 14% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+4% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
3%
1 to less than 2 years
12%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
20%
Greater than 10 years
31%