American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)
Online university and nursing schools, counted by institution. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 12, 2026. Ranked 12 of the 71 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
50%
Employees, annual report
5,841
Leading staffing pattern
Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202741%
- End of 202850%
- End of 203057%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 46%
- Becomes checking a model's work 37%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
American Public Education’s 5,841 employees are 5,557 faculty and staff at its three institutions, mostly part-time faculty, and 284 corporate, each counted by the filing.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 22% now, 41% at the end of 2027, 50% at the end of 2028, 57% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 58% desk work, 26% people work and 16% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 37% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
5,841 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its institutions are U.S. universities and nursing schools.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, APEI’s employee population comprised the following: APUS 2,397, RU 2,720, HCN 440, Corporate 284, total 5,841 (2,360 full-time and 3,481 part-time, 705 full-time and 3,130 part-time faculty members among them).”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | 95% | By (a): the filing counts 2,397 at American Public University System, 2,720 at Rasmussen University and 440 at Hondros College of Nursing, 5,557 faculty and staff, colleges and universities. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 5% | By (a): the filing counts 284 corporate employees, a stated corporate count read at management of companies under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 5,841 employees: 2,360 full-time (705 faculty, 1,655 other staff) and 3,481 part-time (3,130 faculty, 351 staff); APUS 2,397, RU 2,720, HCN 440, corporate 284; full-time turnover 16% in 2025.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Laureate Education, Inc. (LAUR, 33,900 employees)22% now, 49% by 2028
- Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO, 6,000 employees)22% now, 51% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
24 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 24 times, as risks: increased use of AI presenting operational, legal and competitive risks, and the challenges it poses to postsecondary institutions.
- “Department of Education, or ED, institutional and programmatic accreditors, and state authorizing agencies and expectations regarding the effects of those actions; our ability to manage, grow, and diversify our business and execute our business initiatives and strategy; the impact, timing, projected benefits, and terms of the planned combination of American Public University System, or APUS, Ra...”
- “Increased use of AI may present operational, reputational, legal, regulatory, and competitive risks and could result in additional costs, each of which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. 4 PART I ITEM 1.”
- “Most postsecondary institutions, including for-profit postsecondary institutions, regardless of where they are located, how they are organized, or who they serve, face challenges, including: demand for relevance and return on investment, as they must prepare students with relevant skills to work in new and rapidly changing industries, respond to technological change, and support employers in ef...”
- “APUS aims to provide students with collaborative learning experiences, classroom support powered by AI, and personalized digital services.”
- “Already, students can access personalized career coaches, and 24/7 mental health support, both in multiple languages; AI-based career services; and numerous online practical work experience opportunities.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20211median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20232median 1
- Fiscal 202422median 4
- Fiscal 202524median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,841 | 2026-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 6,117 | 2025-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 6,037 | 2024-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,244 | 2023-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,800 | 2022-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,940 | 2021-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,900 | 2020-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 1,790 | 2019-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 1,920 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,040 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 2,210 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,240 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,250 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 2,000 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 1,790 | 2012-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 1,500 | 2011-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 980 | 2010-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 740 | 2009-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 650 | 2008-03-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector found no count; the filing’s table states 5,841 (rule 2).
- Six tenths of the workforce is part-time faculty.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001201792-26-000004, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of American Public Education, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 50% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce American Public Education, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does American Public Education, Inc. employ?
- 5,841 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up American Public Education, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; by those patterns the work is about 58% desk work, 26% people work and 16% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does American Public Education, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 24 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 1, 1, 2, 22 and 24 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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