Compensation
What Presidents Make
Browse pay and benefits of chief executives based on Chronicle surveys. Tables: Publics (2009-10) |Publics (Before 2009) | Privates | For-Profits
See More: Income Disparity at the Top | Meet the Presidents
Students
Freshman Class Migration
More public universities are fanning out across the nation to recruit, and students are responding.
Related Article: More Students Migrate Away From Home
Data
The Almanac of Higher Education 2011
The Chronicle's annual special issue collects a wealth of data, analysis, and state-by-state profiles.
Chronicle Store: Order a Copy
Government
How Educated Are State Legislators?
The Chronicle looked at where each of the 7,000-plus state legislators in America went to college—or whether they went at all. Use our interactive tool to search by state, degree type, or university.
Related Article: Where America's Lawmakers Went—and Whether It Matters
Surveys of the Public and Presidents
'We Should Be Worried'
Surveys of leaders and of the public reveal a fractured system: Rising costs test families’ faith, while one in three presidents see academe on the wrong road.
See more: Full Survey Results and Commentary
Rankings
How Doctoral Programs Stack Up 
About 5,000 programs, in 59 fields of study, have been ranked by the National Research Council. Use a Chronicle tool to compare institutions.
Student Data
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Interactive Tool: Tuition Over Time, 2000-2011
- A Profile of This Year's Freshmen
- Graduation Rates Fall at One-Third of 4-Year Colleges
- A Public University Joins the Expanding $50K Club of College Prices
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Online Learning: Enrollment and Demographics
- Interactive Tool: Tuition Over Time, 1999-2010
- This Year's Freshmen at 4-Year Colleges: Highlights of a Survey
Faculty Data
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Release of Faculty-Productivity Data Roils U. of Texas
The University of Texas system released a vast set of data showing what professors earn and what they do, to the dismay of faculty members.
- Average Faculty Salaries by Field and Rank at 4-Year Colleges and Universities, 2010-11
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Faculty Views About Online Learning
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Characteristics of Recipients of Earned Doctorates
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Black Ph.D.'s Face High Levels of Debt
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Part-Time, Non-Tenured Faculty
Financial & Institutional Data
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Sortable Table: Licensing Revenue and Patent Activity, 2010 Fiscal Year
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Private Colleges Are More Dependent Than Public Ones on Tuition
- Donations to Colleges Barely Grew in 2010
- Colleges' Endowments Earned 12 Percent but Still Trail 2007 Value
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Table: Licensing Revenue and Patent Activity, 2009 Fiscal Year
- Updates on Capital Campaigns at 36 Colleges and Universities
- Tables: Doctoral Programs by the Numbers
Administrator Data
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Median Salaries of Midlevel Administrative Workers by Job Category and Type of Institution, 2010-11
- Salaries Increase Slightly for Senior Administrators, but Cutbacks Hamper Pay at Public Colleges
- Median Salaries of Midlevel Administrative Workers by Job Category and Type of Institution, 2009-10
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Salaries of Senior Administrators Reflect Dip in Economy
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Characteristics of Senior College Administrators by Type of Institution, 2007
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Attainment
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