About the CRA Taulbee Survey

The Taulbee Survey is the principal source of information on the enrollment, production, and employment of PhDs in computer science, computer engineering, and information in North America. For over five decades, this report has provided academic departments, industry leaders, and policymakers with critical, data-driven insights into the computing research landscape. Beyond degree production, the survey tracks vital metrics regarding faculty salaries, departmental research expenditures, and demographic trends across both student and faculty populations, serving as a comprehensive barometer for the health and trajectory of the field.

Adherence

CRA is committed to complying fully with applicable laws and regulations that protect privacy, equality, competition, and other pertinent standards. CRA seeks to protect the Taulbee Survey’s many legitimate purposes by expecting universal commitment to such standards. CRA, a third-party survey administrator, takes due precautions to adhere to laws and ethical principles, such as:

Maintaining strict confidentiality of all submitted data, which shall not be disclosed in raw form to anyone;
Engaging a professional survey service to receive and process all data independently;
Soliciting historical salary data by position; and
Distributing Taulbee Survey results (and any related report, publication, or presentation) using only data that is aggregate, anonymous, and inclusive of numerous respondents.

CRA encourages community members to engage actively with institutional, local, state, and federal resources. While CRA may, within appropriate guidelines, offer its members separate reports scoped to subsets of data, all of those likewise contain only aggregate and anonymous data sufficiently broad to preclude identifying any sources of individual data and to ensure that no data source comprises a disproportionate share.