Higher Education United States January 2026
~100k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~25
Organizations
These insights represent ~100k questions answered from ~25 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Higher Education
Reported gender breakdown
Female
59%
Male
41%
Non-Binary
0.08%
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.
65% of Higher Education United States employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 39% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 22% compared with the overall average.
How does Higher Education United States compare?
On the lower side, people in Higher Education United States had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Company Performance, and Feedback & Recognition.
People working in Higher Education United States are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Higher Education United States are less engaged than New Tech Spain, North America (1000-5000), Technology, Science, Research APAC, and Internet North America.
The highest scoring question for Higher Education United States had 90% of people agreeing that they know what they need to do to be successful in their role (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Higher Education United States 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 29% of people disagreeing (+12% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 25% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+5% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% 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
3%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
5%
1 to less than 2 years
13%
2 to less than 4 years
21%
4 to less than 6 years
7%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
35%