At just two universities did more than two-thirds of full-time instructional staff members with faculty status hold the rank of full professor in the fall of 2016. Ten of the four-year public institutions with the highest percentages of full professors were in California, three were in Minnesota, and two each in Connecticut and Wisconsin. Among the top 25 private nonprofit institutions, five each were in California and Massachusetts, and two each were in Indiana, Rhode Island, and Texas. Faculty members at private nonprofit institutions were slightly more likely to have reached the rank of professor by the fall of 2016 than were those at public institutions.
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4-year public institutions
| 1. | City U. of New York Graduate Center | 243 | 67.1% | 14.0% | 14.8% | 0.0% | 4.1% | 0.0% |
| 2. | U. of California at Santa Barbara | 967 | 53.9% | 16.0% | 14.9% | 0.0% | 15.2% | 0.0% |
| 3. | Minnesota State U. at Moorhead | 209 | 53.6% | 20.1% | 23.4% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 4. | U. of California at Berkeley | 1,641 | 52.8% | 19.0% | 15.8% | 0.4% | 11.2% | 0.9% |
| 5. | Sonoma State U. | 258 | 49.2% | 18.2% | 18.6% | 0.0% | 14.0% | 0.0% |
| 6. | U. of California at Davis | 2,302 | 49.2% | 20.2% | 23.1% | 0.0% | 7.6% | 0.0% |
| 7. | U. of California at San Diego | 2,239 | 49.1% | 19.7% | 22.9% | 0.0% | 8.3% | 0.0% |
| 8. | U. of California at Santa Cruz | 589 | 48.6% | 23.4% | 18.5% | 0.0% | 8.5% | 1.0% |
| 9. | U. of Wisconsin at River Falls | 212 | 48.1% | 19.3% | 22.6% | 0.0% | 9.9% | 0.0% |
| 10. | St. Cloud State U. | 423 | 48.0% | 25.5% | 23.4% | 3.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 11. | Southwest Minnesota State U. | 102 | 47.1% | 26.5% | 26.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 12. | Truman State U. | 332 | 46.7% | 11.7% | 31.3% | 10.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 13. | Eastern Michigan U. | 755 | 46.5% | 20.0% | 21.1% | 0.4% | 12.1% | 0.0% |
| 14. | U. of California at Los Angeles | 3,430 | 46.5% | 16.8% | 22.7% | 8.3% | 5.6% | 0.2% |
| 15. | Southeastern Oklahoma State U. | 110 | 46.4% | 20.9% | 20.0% | 12.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 16. | Eastern Connecticut State U. | 199 | 46.2% | 21.1% | 32.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 17. | California State U. at Sacramento | 725 | 46.2% | 17.4% | 20.0% | 0.0% | 16.0% | 0.4% |
| 18. | U. of California at Irvine | 1,775 | 46.0% | 20.6% | 20.2% | 2.8% | 10.4% | 0.0% |
| 19. | Virginia Military Institute | 134 | 44.8% | 17.2% | 35.1% | 2.2% | 0.7% | 0.0% |
| 20. | U. of Wisconsin at Madison | 3,362 | 44.8% | 21.0% | 26.9% | 4.8% | 2.5% | 0.0% |
| 21. | Central Connecticut State U. | 446 | 43.7% | 29.6% | 25.8% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 22. | Southern Oregon U. | 161 | 43.5% | 22.4% | 14.9% | 19.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 23. | Purdue U. at West Lafayette | 1,819 | 43.2% | 28.1% | 27.5% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| 24. | Wayne State College | 121 | 43.0% | 23.1% | 28.9% | 4.1% | 0.8% | 0.0% |
| 25. | California State U. at San Bernardino | 475 | 42.7% | 13.5% | 24.4% | 0.0% | 18.7% | 0.6% |
| | All 478 institutions in category | 318,418 | 29.4% | 25.6% | 26.5% | 7.1% | 9.2% | 2.2% |
4-year private nonprofit institutions
| 1. | California Institute of Technology | 331 | 73.4% | 1.5% | 13.3% | 5.1% | 5.1% | 1.5% |
| 2. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1,014 | 63.6% | 20.3% | 16.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 3. | Stanford U. | 1,990 | 58.5% | 20.5% | 21.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 4. | Harvard U. | 2,137 | 57.1% | 8.0% | 12.3% | 3.3% | 19.2% | 0.0% |
| 5. | Point Loma Nazarene U. | 134 | 56.0% | 31.3% | 12.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 6. | Calvin College | 252 | 53.6% | 27.4% | 19.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 7. | U. of Redlands | 218 | 52.3% | 22.0% | 6.0% | 0.0% | 5.5% | 14.2% |
| 8. | Davidson College | 185 | 51.9% | 15.7% | 29.7% | 0.5% | 2.2% | 0.0% |
| 9. | North Park U. | 116 | 51.7% | 24.1% | 24.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 10. | Princeton U. | 924 | 51.5% | 10.7% | 19.3% | 1.8% | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| 11. | Williams College | 298 | 50.7% | 13.1% | 25.8% | 5.0% | 5.4% | 0.0% |
| 12. | Smith College | 296 | 50.3% | 16.6% | 15.5% | 0.0% | 17.6% | 0.0% |
| 13. | Harvey Mudd College | 103 | 49.5% | 20.4% | 30.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 14. | Curry College | 101 | 49.5% | 19.8% | 30.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 15. | Juniata College | 110 | 48.2% | 24.5% | 20.9% | 6.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 16. | Furman U. | 239 | 48.1% | 28.9% | 21.8% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.8% |
| 17. | DePauw U. | 226 | 47.8% | 24.8% | 26.5% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 18. | Brown U. | 817 | 47.4% | 17.0% | 17.5% | 0.0% | 8.8% | 9.3% |
| 19. | Hardin-Simmons U. | 135 | 46.7% | 30.4% | 16.3% | 6.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 20. | Rice U. | 671 | 46.2% | 16.7% | 14.3% | 3.4% | 18.3% | 1.0% |
| 21. | Carleton College | 236 | 46.2% | 20.8% | 25.0% | 2.1% | 5.5% | 0.4% |
| 22. | Washington and Lee U. | 244 | 45.9% | 25.0% | 25.8% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 23. | Taylor U. | 131 | 45.8% | 21.4% | 29.8% | 3.1% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 24. | Ohio Wesleyan U. | 138 | 45.7% | 29.7% | 22.5% | 1.4% | 0.7% | 0.0% |
| 25. | Roger Williams U. | 215 | 45.1% | 34.4% | 20.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| | All 424 institutions in category | 158,330 | 31.0% | 26.0% | 27.5% | 6.3% | 6.2% | 3.0% |
Note: Only institutions classified as doctoral, master’s, and baccalaureate (but not baccalaureate/associate) under the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education are included in this analysis. Institutions with fewer than 100 faculty members and those without tenure systems were excluded. Employees considered in the analysis were full-time instructional staff members with faculty status in the fall of 2016. Instructors, lecturers, and those with no academic rank who were not accorded faculty status by their institutions were excluded. Percentages are rounded, but institutions were ranked before rounding. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data</small></p>