Higher Education United States July 2025
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
Reported gender breakdown
Female
57%
Male
43%
Non-Binary
0.04%
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.
67% of Higher Education United States employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 47% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 21% compared with the overall average.
How does Higher Education United States compare?
People in Higher Education United States were much more positive than average regarding Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Higher Education United States had much lower favorable scores than average in Company Performance, Action, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Higher Education United States are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Higher Education United States are less engaged than Technology, Science, Research (100-200), New Tech Canada, Primary/Secondary Education North America, and Eastern Europe (500-1000).
The highest scoring question for Higher Education United States had 88% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Work & Life Blend.
People in Higher Education United States were generally least favourable about Company Performance, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 24% of people disagreeing (+7% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 26% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+6% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 7% 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
5%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
7%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
32%