Job Check
Education Administrators, Postsecondary
Plan, direct, or coordinate student instruction, administration, and services, as well as other research and educational activities, at postsecondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and junior and community colleges.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Design or use assessments to monitor student learning outcomes.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Recruit, hire, train, and terminate departmental personnel.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Direct, coordinate, and evaluate the activities of personnel, including support staff engaged in administering academic institutions, departments, or alumni organizations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Advise students on issues such as course selection, progress toward graduation, and career decisions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Plan, administer, and control budgets, maintain financial records, and produce financial reports.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Formulate strategic plans for the institution.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Establish operational policies and procedures and make any necessary modifications, based on analysis of operations, demographics, and other research information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Provide assistance to faculty and staff in duties such as teaching classes, conducting orientation programs, issuing transcripts, and scheduling events.People already use AI for this at work
- 09Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.Mostly human for now
- 10Prepare reports on academic or institutional data.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss6%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
44%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 29% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Represent institutions at community and campus events, in meetings with other institution personnel, and during accreditation processes.