Inside Higher Ed: 2025 Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers
Inside Higher Ed and Hanover Research sent survey invitations via email to 2,538 provosts, with regular reminders sent throughout the June and July 2025 field period. Hanover collected 478 fully or partially completed surveys, yielding a 19 percent response rate. The survey is an attempted census of all provosts using the most comprehensive sample information available to target all eligible U.S. colleges and universities from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) database. The margin of error for this survey is 4 percent, given a total n-count of 478. Conclusions drawn from a small sample size (n<20) should be interpreted with caution. In the charts and percentages that follow, some percentages may not total 100 due to rounding. Read more.