Education Administrators, Postsecondary

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.63

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Direct activities of administrative departments, such as admissions, registration, and career services.55
• Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.54
• Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.54

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

• Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports.24
• Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.26
• Teach courses within their department.26

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 45 puts Education Administrators, Postsecondary in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this level is about the mix: 1 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 15 augmentable, and 4 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: adopt AI deliberately on the augmentable tasks and build visible evidence of the durable ones.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

Shown only when the target is at least 10 points lower under the same score version and skill overlap is at least 50%. These are adjacent roles with lower task exposure — not guaranteed “safe careers”.

Labor-market context

• $104,590median wage
• 180,470employed
• 15,100annual openings
• +1.7%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 46
• Education Teachers, Postsecondary 38
• Training and Development Managers 55
• Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary 31
• Social and Community Service Managers 56
• Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary 36

FAQ — Education Administrators, Postsecondary

What does a score of 45 mean for a Education Administrators, Postsecondary?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 45 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the second quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The most durable responsibilities are: Review student misconduct reports requiring disciplinary action, and counsel students regarding such reports; Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes; Teach courses within their department. Durable tasks typically depend on judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.