Full-Time Instructional Staff Members at 4-Year Institutions, by Academic Rank and Tenure Status, Fall 2016

More than a quarter of all full-time instructional staff members at four-year institutions in 2016 were full professors. More than a third of those instructional staff members were either not on the tenure track or were working at institutions with no tenure system.

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Note: The data cover all degree-granting four-year institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in Title IV financial-aid programs.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data

Correction (October 1, 2018, 6:05 p.m.): The original version of this table said the data covered “newly hired” full-time instructional staff members at four-year institutions. It actually covers all full-time instructional staff members at four-year institutions in the fall of 2016, not just the newly hired. The description has been corrected.