Higher Education AU & NZ July 2026
~770k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~20
Organizations
These insights represent ~770k questions answered from ~20 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Higher Education, E-Learning, Education Management, Mental Health Care
Most represented regions in this benchmark
APAC
50%
Oceania
49%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
62%
Male
38%
Non-Binary
0.27%
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.
63% 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 -2 and is the lowest scoring group compared with other industries.
How does Higher Education AU and NZ compare?
On the lower side, people in Higher Education AU & NZ had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Leadership, and Company Performance.
People working in Higher Education AU & NZ are less engaged than All Industries (Global).
The highest scoring question for Higher Education AU & NZ had 84% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (-2% 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 (+10% 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
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
5%
1 to less than 2 years
10%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
11%
6 to less than 10 years
18%
Greater than 10 years
29%