Perdoceo Education Corporation (PRDO)
For-profit universities, counted by institution. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 5 of the 71 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
51%
Employees, annual report
6,000
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 202742%
- End of 202851%
- End of 203059%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 44%
- Becomes checking a model's work 39%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
Perdoceo’s 6,000 employees are 5,122 at its three universities and 878 corporate-level, both 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, 42% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 59% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 59% desk work, 26% people work and 15% 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 44% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 39% 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
6,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; its universities are U.S. institutions.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 6,000 employees, of which 2,039 work for CTU, 1,648 work for AIUS and 1,435 work for USAHS, with the remainder being corporate-level employees in areas such as marketing, information technology, financial aid, accounting, human resources, legal and compliance.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | 85% | By (a): the filing counts 2,039 employees at Colorado Technical University, 1,648 at American InterContinental University System and 1,435 at the University of St. Augustine, 5,122, universities. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 15% | By (a): the remaining 878 are corporate-level employees in marketing, information technology, financial aid, accounting, human resources, legal and compliance, a stated corporate remainder, rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 6,000 employees: CTU 2,039, AIUS 1,648, USAHS 1,435 and about 878 corporate-level; part-time employees are primarily adjunct faculty; full-time employees 67% female.
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
- American Public Education, Inc. (APEI, 5,841 employees)22% now, 50% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
19 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 19 times: AI explored and used in the student enrollment and academic life cycle, with virtual assistants built on large language models.
- “Technology is a key enabler for us, and we are continuing to explore and utilize artificial intelligence (" AI ") within the student enrollment and academic life cycle to enhance student experiences.”
- “Perdoceo and its academic institutions have continued to test and explore AI-related technology to effectively and efficiently serve current and prospective students and provide our enrollment and student support staff with tools necessary to improve the overall learning and academic experience of our learners.”
- “These virtual assistants utilize the latest Large Language Models (" LLMs "), as well as other generative AI technologies.”
- “Curricula may also incorporate AI literacy and discipline-appropriate use of AI tools, which are aligned to program outcomes and workforce expectations, while also emphasizing ethical application, transparency, and critical evaluation.”
- “Our use of artificial intelligence may subject us to increased compliance obligations and legal risk.”
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 20213median 0
- Fiscal 20223median 0
- Fiscal 20233median 1
- Fiscal 20244median 4
- Fiscal 202519median 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 | 6,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,690 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 4,350 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 4,500 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 4,300 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,700 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,000 | 2020-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,244 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,462 | 2018-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,149 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 6,687 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 8,127 | 2015-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 9,075 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 12,435 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 14,602 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 15,598 | 2011-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 14,383 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 13,014 | 2009-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 14,479 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 16,740 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 17,180 | 2006-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 15,500 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 7,400 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 4,700 | 2003-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 3,600 | 2002-03-21 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | not read | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 1,700 | 2000-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 1,460 | 1999-03-18 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 950 | 1998-03-31 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The corporate count is the stated remainder after the three institutions’ counts.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-059331, 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 Perdoceo Education Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 51% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Perdoceo Education Corporation'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 Perdoceo Education Corporation employ?
- 6,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Perdoceo Education Corporation'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 59% desk work, 26% people work and 15% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Perdoceo Education Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 19 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 3, 3, 3, 4 and 19 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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