Read Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 Survey of College and University Business Officers, sponsored by Syntellis, to learn more about how business leaders are feeling about the immediate future and stability of their institution.  

Key findings include: 

  • 72% of business officers are confident their institution will be financially stable over 5 years 
  • 51% of business officers believe their institution is in better financial shape now than it was in 2019 
  • More business officers at private nonprofit institutions (44%) indicated that a lack of adequate data and analytic capability is a significant obstacle to a sustainable financial future, compared to business officers at public institutions (27%) 

Inside Higher Ed’s 2023 Survey of College and University Business Officers was conducted by Hanover Research. The survey included 217 chief business officers from public, private nonprofit and for-profit institutions.