1 Overview - ICCU as Employers

This document comes from a request from Kristen around employment data:

How can we find out who of our school’s are the top or of the top 3 private employer in their city? I want to provide this to Lande Ajose.

After a review, it became clear that there was no comprehensive place to find city-level employment data rankings. As such, we’ll be unable to identify top private employers in each city.

1.1 Major Takeaways

  • Based on IPEDS 2018-19 numbers, private four-year institutions employ the full-time equivalent of 81,000+ people
  • ICCU institutions employ over a quarter of all employees in the post-secondary sector (27%)