Taulbee Survey 2025: Annual Report

Computing Research Association

What’s New This Year?

CRA Taulbee Survey Dashboard

For the first time, the traditional written report is supplemented by a fully interactive dashboard for student enrollment and degree production data alongside faculty salary data.

Explore the Taulbee Survey data your way. Drill down by institution control (Public vs. Private), unit type (CS, CE, or IN), Carnegie classification, and unit size to see enrollment, degree production, and faculty salary data tailored to the comparisons you care about. Click here to access the CRA Taulbee Survey Dashboard.

Usability & Interface Improvements

The 2025 report has been redesigned from the ground up to be easier to read, navigate, and explore.

  • Updated look and feel. Refreshed branding, typography, and color palette across every section.
  • Hover over figures for more information. All trend figures are now hoverable, with tooltips that show exact counts, percent change from the prior year, and the number of contributing units.
  • Longitudinal data. Trend charts cover the 2020-2025 window, so you can see how the field has changed in the past five years rather than only the most recent snapshot.
  • Downloadable figures & tables. Save high-resolution versions of any figure by clicking the camera icon in the upper-right corner of the figure. Download tables as Excel files by clicking the button under the table.
  • Clickable appendix. The Appendix now links to every figure and table by name. Historical table/figure IDs (B1, M2, etc.) are preserved as permanent anchors even when sections were reorganized.

Methodological Improvements

Several methodological changes this year make the numbers in this report more rigorous and easier to interpret.

  • Improved operationalization of Taulbee roles. In 2025, the Taulbee Survey was accompanied by a guide that formally defines every faculty role tracked by the Taulbee Survey to increase transparency and data clarity. In prior years, respondents categorized their faculty using role labels (Assistant, Associate, Full, Teaching Professor, Other Instructor, Researcher, Postdoctorate) that were not accompanied by formal definitions. The new guide standardizes these categories so that the boundaries between Tenure-Track or Tenured faculty and Non-Tenure-Track faculty roles are clear and applied consistently across reporting units. The complete role-by-role definition guide is available here: CRA Taulbee Survey Definition Guide.
  • Longitudinal cohorts for trend data. Every major section now reports its trend figures against a longitudinal cohort: the subset of units that reported the relevant metric in every survey year from 2020 to 2025. This keeps the denominator constant year-over-year so apparent trends aren’t driven by units entering or leaving the sample. Each section opens with its cohort size, and a dagger (†) marks any value computed from the cohort. Comparison of the longitudinal cohort sample to the full sample of units that responded in 2025 is also provided at the end of each section.
  • Updated terminology. The word “unit” is used throughout the report to refer to a responding department, school, or college, since some Taulbee respondents report at the college or school level rather than the department level.