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Will AI replace Education Administrators, Postsecondary?
Baseline AI displacement risk for Education Administrators, Postsecondary, aggregated from 6 research sources.
What this score means
Education Administrators, Postsecondary leans toward the safer end for Management. Parts of the role touch tasks AI is getting good at, but the core still depends on hands on work or judgment that resists automation. At 35 out of 100 it sits close to the Management average of 37. Across the 6 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 14 to 68, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.
The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works
What this job actually involves
Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Education Administrators, Postsecondary, most central first, showing 12 of 27.
- 01Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.
- 02Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.
- 03Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.
- 04Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions.
- 05Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.
- 06Formulate strategic plans for the institution.
- 07Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.
- 08Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.
- 09Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.
- 10Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.
- 11Promote the university by participating in community, state, and national events or meetings, and by developing partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions.
- 12Participate in faculty and college committee activities.
Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.
The research behind this score
This baseline aggregates 6 research sources that scored Education Administrators, Postsecondary for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.
- 01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026Anthropic
- 02Global Automation Atlas: Task Substitution Exposure by Occupation · 2026Garg, Crosta, Baier (2026), arXiv:2605.17086
- 03Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure · 2025International Labour Organization, Working Paper 140 (2025)
- 04Working with AI: Measuring the Applicability of Generative AI to Occupations · 2025Tomlinson, Jaffe et al., Microsoft Research (2025)
- 05GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin, Rock (Science, 2024)
- 06AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023Felten, Raj, Seamans (2023)
Common questions
- How likely is AI to replace Education Administrators, Postsecondary?
- Published research puts Education Administrators, Postsecondary at 35 out of 100 for AI displacement risk, in the lower risk band. The number is a weighted consensus of 6 research sources and describes the typical version of the role, not any individual.
- Do researchers agree on the risk for Education Administrators, Postsecondary?
- Only partly. Individual estimates for Education Administrators, Postsecondary run from 14 to 68 out of 100 across the 6 sources behind this score, so the single number smooths over real disagreement. More recent and higher confidence studies carry more weight in it.
- Which management roles face similar AI exposure?
- The closest published management roles to Education Administrators, Postsecondary by score are Compensation and Benefits Managers (35/100), Construction Managers (35/100), and Emergency Management Directors (35/100). Each has its own page with the research behind its number.
Also covers
Academic Affairs Dean · Academic Affairs Director · Academic Affairs Vice President (Academic Affairs VP) · Academic Coordinator · Academic Dean · Academic Vice President (Academic VP) · Administration Dean · Admissions Coordinator and related titles
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Informational guidance based on published research, not professional career or financial advice. Scores update as new research is ingested.