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Colleges With the Highest Average Pay for Associate Professors, 2016-17

Almanac 2018

August 19, 2018

The 10 highest-paying public doctoral institutions, private nonprofit doctoral institutions, and private nonprofit baccalaureate institutions all paid full-time associate professors, on average, more than $100,000 a year. Eight master’s institutions and only one associate or baccalaureate/associate institution paid average salaries in the six figures.

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Public institutions

Doctoral

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	U. of California at Los Angeles	$124,493	286
2.	U. of California at Berkeley	$123,834	312
3.	U. of Texas at Dallas	$119,498	148
4.	Rutgers U. at Newark	$115,349	144
5.	New Jersey Institute of Technology	$114,165	99
6.	U. of Virginia	$111,785	381
7.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	$110,221	587
8.	U. of California at San Diego	$110,138	221
9.	U. of Massachusetts at Lowell	$109,936	162
10.	U. of Maryland at College Park	$109,363	430

Master’s

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Pennsylvania State U.-Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies	$130,440	13
2.	City U. of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College	$104,098	141
3.	U. of Washington at Bothell	$101,354	43
4.	Pennsylvania State U.-Harrisburg	$99,532	69
5.	U. of Washington at Tacoma	$98,158	64
6.	U. of Baltimore	$97,551	63
7.	California State U.-Channel Islands	$94,958	17
8.	California State U.-Dominguez Hills	$93,343	56
9.	City U. of New York, City College	$92,503	158
10.	City U. of New York, Hunter College	$92,375	207

Baccalaureate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	U.S. Merchant Marine Academy	$96,942	31
2.	Pennsylvania State U. at Erie, The Behrend College	$93,122	60
3.	Cheyney U. of Pennsylvania	$90,474	14
4.	U. of New Hampshire at Manchester	$90,043	14
5.	California State U. Maritime Academy	$87,902	12
6.	City U. of New York, New York City College of Technology	$87,401	121
7.	City U. of New York, York College	$87,082	75
8.	City U. of New York, Medgar Evers College	$86,180	40
9.	U. of Hawaii-West Oahu	$85,340	14
10.	Pennsylvania State U.-Brandywine	$85,278	16

Associate and baccalaureate/associate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Pennsylvania College of Technology	$105,018	55
2.	College of DuPage	$95,617	44
3.	Elgin Community College	$95,159	32
4.	Westchester Community College	$95,144	39
5.	City Colleges of Chicago, Harry S. Truman College	$94,185	9

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Private nonprofit institutions

Doctoral

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Stanford U.	$150,182	188
2.	California Institute of Technology	$147,191	5
3.	Columbia U.	$144,566	226
4.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$141,682	206
5.	Yale U.	$137,765	131
6.	U. of Pennsylvania	$134,982	212
7.	Northwestern U.	$129,619	304
8.	Princeton U.	$127,036	99
9.	U. of Chicago	$125,852	217
10.	Harvard U.	$124,961	135

Master’s

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Bentley U.	$116,177	76
2.	Santa Clara U.	$111,956	149
3.	Keck Graduate Institute	$105,905	10
4.	Seton Hill U.	$102,999	47
5.	Stevenson U.	$100,630	31
6.	Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey	$99,503	15
7.	Rider U.	$99,140	95
8.	New York Institute of Technology	$98,577	97
9.	Bryant U.	$98,059	41
10.	Long Island U.-C.W. Post	$97,882	94

Baccalaureate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Colby College	$123,271	50
2.	Barnard College	$117,001	31
3.	Claremont McKenna College	$113,874	53
4.	Pomona College	$111,292	71
5.	Harvey Mudd College	$107,499	21
6.	Amherst College	$106,579	30
7.	U. of Richmond	$105,573	131
8.	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	$104,779	17
9.	Swarthmore College	$104,423	40
10.	Washington and Lee U.	$103,907	61

Associate and baccalaureate/associate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology	$89,229	11
2.	Johnson & Wales U. at Charlotte (N.C.)	$79,697	40
3.	Johnson & Wales U. at Denver	$78,292	23
4.	Fisher College	$69,048	10
5.	New England Institute of Technology	$63,282	42

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For-profit institutions

Doctoral

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Grand Canyon U.	$77,596	21
2.	Alliant International U. at San Diego	$74,668	44
3.	Argosy U. at Chicago	$60,712	8
4.	Argosy U. Online Programs	$53,928	11
5.	Argosy U. at Atlanta	$52,577	9

Master’s

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	South U. at Savannah (Ga.)	$94,403	6
2.	South College (Tenn.)	$77,629	19
3.	Argosy U.-Twin Cities	$61,074	4
4.	DeVry U. of California	$60,941	8
5.	DeVry U. of Arizona	$59,124	4

Baccalaureate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	DigiPen Institute of Technology	$81,041	8
2.	Cogswell Polytechnical College	$69,054	9
3.	United States U.	$65,118	5
4.	Five Towns College	$55,951	9
5.	Kendall College	$55,526	5

Associate and baccalaureate/associate

Rank	Institution	Salary	Number
1.	Bay State College	$61,166	8
2.	Herzing U. at Kenosha (Wis.)	$55,408	4
3.	Lincoln College of New England at Southington (Conn.)	$50,871	10
4.	ECPI U.	$48,841	192
5.	College of Westchester (N.Y.)	$47,498	8

Note: Figures are based on data from all Title IV-participating, degree-granting institutions in the United States. The data cover full-time, nonmedical instructional staff members (who are engaged primarily in instruction or in instruction combined with research and/or public service) as of November 1, 2016. The salaries are adjusted to a standard nine-month work year. Institutions with fewer than four associate professors are excluded. Categories are based on the 2015 Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education. See The Chronicle’s complete database of faculty salaries here. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.

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