Higher Education Au & Nz January 2026
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Higher Education, Education Management, Management Consulting
Most represented regions in this benchmark
APAC
50%
Oceania
48%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
61%
Male
38%
Non-Binary
0.54%
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.
62% of Higher Education Au and Nz employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 20% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -1 and is in the bottom 2% compared with other industries.
How does Higher Education Au and Nz compare?
People in Higher Education Au & Nz were much more positive than average regarding Feedback & Recognition.
On the lower side, people in Higher Education Au & Nz had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Company Performance, and Service & Quality Focus.
People working in Higher Education Au & Nz are less engaged than All Industries (Global).
The highest scoring question for Higher Education Au & Nz had 86% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Higher Education Au & Nz were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards '%[Company]% effectively directs resources (funding, people and effort) towards company goals' with 25% of people disagreeing (+12% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 29% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+9% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+1% 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
4%
1 to less than 2 years
11%
2 to less than 4 years
20%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
19%
Greater than 10 years
31%