FY24 IT Benchmarking and Strategic Planning

FY24 IT Benchmarking & Strategic Planning

The CIO Division conducts an annual benchmarking analysis to assess our strategy and operations relative to higher education peers and IT units across the University of Arizona. The analysis compares strategic priorities, services, organizational design, personnel, operating and capital expenditures, suppliers, and operational maturity to inform data driven decision-making with University leadership, IT leadership and IT staff. This information is published in the University’s IT Annual Report to foster transparency and support strategic planning activities.

External Benchmarking

The University of Arizona, a land-grant university with two independently accredited medical schools, is one of the nation’s top public universities in the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) national university rankings. The university is also ranked in the top 20 in research expenditures among all public institutions and is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). In FY24, University of Arizona’s IT expenditure was 7.2%, which was the smallest expenditure compared to higher education peers in all other benchmark categories.

Information Technology at The University of Arizona

The University of Arizona’s IT community is comprised of 1,008 professionals across central and distributed job functions that support college, institutional, auxiliary and enterprise-wide services. The annual expenditure in FY24 for IT across the University was $160.8M.

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University Information Technology Services

At the beginning of FY24, the CIO Division had 360.8 FTE. In early March 2024, 492.2 distributed FTE positions were centralized, and the CIO Division ended FY24 with a total of 839.3 FTE, representing the university’s 19 UCAP IT job families. The annual expenditure for the CIO Division was $160.8M (Central + Distributed).

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Expenditures

 
UArizona
ABOR Peers
Public AAU
USNWR Public 2024
Top 50
Faculty FTE1
UArizona2,920
ABOR Peers3,767
Public AAU2,906
USNWR Public 2024 Top 502,849
Student FTE2
UArizona40,537
ABOR Peers40,720
Public AAU39,716
USNWR Public 2024 Top 5035,679
Research Exp.3
(in the thousands)
UArizona$770.0M
ABOR Peers$956.4M
Public AAU$768.1M
USNWR Public 2024 Top 50$720.7M
Total Exp.4
(net of hospital)
UArizona$2,220.9M
ABOR Peers$2,564.4M
Public AAU$2,278.8M
USNWR Public 2024 Top 50$2,153.7M
IT Staff FTE (Central + Dist)
UArizona1,008
ABOR Peers1,041
Public AAU877
USNWR Public 2024 Top 50757
Total IT Exp. (Central + Dist) 5
UArizona$160.8M
ABOR Peers$212.4M
Public AAU$186.1M
USNWR Public 2024 Top 50$152.0M
IT Staff (per 1k Students)
UArizona24.9
ABOR Peers25.0
Public AAU22.1
USNWR Public 2024 Top 5021.0
IT Exp. as % Total
UArizona7.2%
ABOR Peers9.1%
Public AAU8.4%
USNWR Public 2024 Top 507.3%
Number of Institutions
UArizona1
ABOR Peers4
Public AAU10
USNWR Public 2024 Top 5011

*University of Arizona is not included in any of the benchmark group averages

HERD Research Expenditures(in the thousands)
UArizona$770,031
ABOR Peers$956,415
Public AAU$768,095
USNWR Public 2024 Top 50$720,653

Data used to update the value for Total research expenditures so that it is reported in the millions, consistent with other expenditure fields.

Sources:
1 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) - Human Resources Component FY2022
2 IPEDS - Enrollment Component FY2022
3 NSF Higher Education Research and Development Survey 2021
4 IPEDS Finance Component FY2021
5 Educause Core Data Service Survey FY2023