Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (UTI)
Technical and healthcare career schools, instructors counted. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 26, 2025. Ranked 4 of the 90 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
40%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
51%
Employees, annual report
4,100
Leading staffing pattern
Technical and Trade Schools
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now40%
- End of 202749%
- End of 202851%
- End of 203051%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 47%
- Becomes checking a model's work 40%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
Universal Technical Institute states about 4,100 employees, 1,500 instructors, 400 admissions representatives and 1,500 student support staff among them, at its trade and healthcare career campuses, read whole at technical and trade schools.
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: 40% now, 49% at the end of 2027, 51% at the end of 2028, 51% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 51% desk work, 32% 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 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 40% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,100 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing describes campuses and faculty hired nationally in the United States and states no count by country; recorded as 1 with a flag.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we had approximately 4,100 employees, including approximately 1,500 instructors, 400 admissions representatives, and 1,500 student support employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Technical and Trade Schools | 100% | Stated counts (a) inside one business: about 1,500 instructors, 400 admissions representatives and 1,500 student support employees of 4,100 at the UTI transportation and skilled trades campuses and the Concorde healthcare career colleges, technical and trade schools, NAICS 6115, with the corporate and divisional management inside. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 1,500 instructors, 400 admissions representatives and 1,500 student support employees of about 4,100; each campus has a president, an education director, a financial aid director, a student services director and a career services director; the count has grown from 1,950 in fiscal 2022 with the Concorde acquisition; fiscal year ends September 30.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Technical and Trade 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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Lincoln Educational Services Corporation (LINC, 2,590 employees)40% now, 51% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's text names AI in no sentence.
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 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 4,100 | 2025-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 3,700 | 2024-12-05 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 3,000 | 2023-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 1,950 | 2022-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 1,660 | 2021-12-02 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 1,575 | 2020-12-03 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 1,670 | 2019-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 1,800 | 2018-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 1,730 | 2017-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 1,880 | 2016-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 2,020 | 2015-12-02 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 2,100 | 2014-12-03 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 2,150 | 2013-12-04 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 2,210 | 2012-11-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 2,260 | 2011-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 2,470 | 2010-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 2,245 | 2009-12-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 2,135 | 2008-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 2,105 | 2007-11-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 2,360 | 2006-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 2,300 | 2005-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 1,800 | 2004-12-23 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The data service's segment table is from fiscal 2022 and is not usable; the two divisions are read together at technical and trade schools.
- The U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's description of U.S. campuses, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001261654-25-000025, 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 Universal Technical Institute, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 40% now and 51% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Universal Technical Institute, 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 Universal Technical Institute, Inc. employ?
- 4,100 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Universal Technical Institute, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Technical and Trade Schools; by those patterns the work is about 51% desk work, 32% 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 Universal Technical Institute, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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 November 8, 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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