Faculty & Staffs by Occupation at MIT

Faculty and Staffs by Occupation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A total of 14,284 employees, including instructional and non-instructional, both full-time and part-time status work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By employment type, there are 13,127 full-time and 1,157 part-time faculties and staffs. By gender, 6,020 female and 8,264 male employees are working at MIT.

The number of instructional staffs (i.e. teaching faculty) is 1,753, which is 12.27% of total employees. On average, 3 students are in a class or assigned per a faculty. By occupation, there are 158 Librarians, 158 management occupation, 1,209 computer/engineering, and 543 service occupations.

By race/ethnicity, there are 9,055 white (63.39%), 599 black (4.19%), and 1,261 asian (8.83%) employees working at MIT. A total of 1,305 non-resident alien employees work at MIT.

Next tables summarize the number of staffs by gender, race/ethnicity, occupation, and faculty status.

Occupation Gender Race/Ethnicity Non-resident Alien

Faculty & Staffs by Occupation and Working Status at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Staff Category	Total	Full-time	Part-time
All Staffs	14,284	13,127	1,157
Postsecondary Teachers	6,598	5,934	664
Instructional staff	1,753	1,404	349
Research	4,845	4,530	315
Librarians, Curators, Archivists and other teaching Instructional support	158	143	15
Librarians, Curators, and Archivists	158	143	15
Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians	42	33	9
Librarians	75	71	4
Library Technicians	41	39	2
Management	158	153	5
Business and Financial Operations	1,727	1,652	75
Computer, Engineering, and Science	1,209	1,180	29
Community Service, Legal, Arts, and Media	1,007	941	66
Healthcare Practioners and Technical	331	301	30
Service Occupations	543	526	17
Sales and Related Occupations	46	44	2
Office and Administrative Support	1,705	1,464	241
Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance	767	754	13
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving	35	35	-

Faculty & Staffs by Gender at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Staff Category	Total	Female	Male
All Staffs	14,284	6,020	8,264
Postsecondary Teachers	6,598	1,913	4,685
Instructional staff	1,753	523	1,230
Research	4,845	1,390	3,455
Librarians, Curators, Archivists and other teaching Instructional support	158	114	44
Librarians, Curators, and Archivists	158	114	44
Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians	42	29	13
Librarians	75	57	18
Library Technicians	41	28	13
Management	158	67	91
Business and Financial Operations	1,727	1,147	580
Computer, Engineering, and Science	1,209	315	894
Community Service, Legal, Arts, and Media	1,007	691	316
Healthcare Practioners and Technical	331	224	107
Service Occupations	543	173	370
Sales and Related Occupations	46	28	18
Office and Administrative Support	1,705	1,215	490
Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance	767	130	637
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving	35	3	32

Faculty & Staffs by Race/Ethnicity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation	Total	American Indian / Alaska Native	Asian	Black	Hispanic	Nativie Hawaiian	White	Two or More Races	Race Unknown
All Staffs	14,284	23	1,261	599	780	8	9,055	225	1,028
Postsecondary Teachers	6,598	6	687	114	248	4	3,836	97	389
Instructional staff	1,753	3	194	54	73	1	1,103	30	211
Research	4,845	3	493	60	175	3	2,733	67	178
Librarians, Curators, Archivists and other teaching Instructional support	158	0	10	6	7	0	119	4	11
Librarians, Curators, and Archivists	158	0	10	6	7	0	119	4	11
Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians	42	0	2	0	3	0	30	2	4
Librarians	75	0	6	5	3	0	56	1	4
Library Technicians	41	0	2	1	1	0	33	1	3
Management	158	0	9	8	2	1	127	0	11
Business and Financial Operations	1,727	2	162	135	144	0	1,105	30	121
Computer, Engineering, and Science	1,209	2	129	57	66	0	859	19	69
Community Service, Legal, Arts, and Media	1,007	4	62	40	50	1	735	22	87
Healthcare Practioners and Technical	331	1	48	50	30	0	153	5	36
Service Occupations	543	1	30	55	84	0	232	2	117
Sales and Related Occupations	46	0	3	5	1	0	34	0	2
Office and Administrative Support	1,705	5	97	100	118	1	1,219	39	112
Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance	767	2	24	25	28	1	609	6	72
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving	35	0	0	4	2	0	27	1	1

Non-resident Alien Faculty & Staffs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Staff Category	Total	Female	Male
All Staffs	1,305	408	897
Postsecondary Teachers	1,217	359	858
Instructional staff	84	24	60
Research	1,133	335	798
Librarians, Curators, Archivists and other teaching Instructional support	1	1	0
Librarians, Curators, and Archivists	1	1	0
Archivists, Curators, and Museum Technicians	1	1	0
Librarians	0	0	0
Library Technicians	0	0	0
Management	0	0	0
Business and Financial Operations	28	14	14
Computer, Engineering, and Science	8	4	4
Community Service, Legal, Arts, and Media	6	5	1
Healthcare Practioners and Technical	8	3	5
Service Occupations	22	11	11
Sales and Related Occupations	1	0	1
Office and Administrative Support	14	11	3
Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance	0	0	0
Production, Transportation, and Material Moving	0	0	0

Employment Status

According to the IPEDS, Full-time staff and Part-time staff is determined by the institution. The type of appointment at the snapshot date determines whether an employee is full time or part time. The employee\s term of contract is not considered in making the determination of full or part time. Casual employees (hired on an ad-hoc basis or occasional basis to meet short-term needs) and students in the College Work-Study Program (CWS) are not considered part-time staff.