Full-Time Faculty

College Transitions provides the percentage of full-time faculty and the percentage of full-time faculty possessing a terminal degree at nearly 500 of the most selective colleges in the U.S.

*Data collected from institutional Common Data Set (CDS) forms for 2020-21.

Table updated October 2021.

Institution	Total Faculty	% Full-Time	Full-Time Faculty with PhD or Terminal Degree	Tags
Adelphi University	1,062	33%	86%
Agnes Scott College	127	69%	98%
Albion College	167	60%	94%
Alfred University	188	79%	93%
Allegheny College	198	75%	93%
American University	1,532	54%	94%	AU
Amherst College	286	88%	94%
Appalachian State University	1,396	74%	98%	App State
Arizona State University	4,304	74%	85%	ASU
Assumption College	214	64%	88%
Auburn University	1,664	86%	89%
Augustana College	257	76%	91%
Austin College	115	88%	93%
Babson College	247	76%	87%
Ball State University	1,313	80%	72%
Bard College	253	63%	91%
Barnard College	330	78%	100%
Bates College	199	89%	98%
Baylor University	1,364	79%	87%
Belmont University	844	46%	88%
Beloit College	102	85%	92%
Bennington College	123	50%	84%
Bentley University	486	58%	83%
Berea College	182	76%	91%
Berry College	230	69%	91%
Binghamton University	1,055	73%	94%
Birmingham Southern College	125	82%	85%
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania	453	79%	88%
Boise State University	1,375	57%	75%
Boston College	1,379	64%	95%	BC
Boston University	2,562	73%	91%	BU
Bowdoin College	228	88%	100%
Bowling Green State University	1,012	71%	79%
Bradley University	491	65%	79%
Brandeis University	544	72%	95%
Brigham Young University-Provo	1,858	68%	93%	BYU
Brown University	916	94%	95%
Bryant University	301	56%	83%
Bryn Mawr College	200	77%	97%
Bucknell University	420	91%	96%
Butler University	493	75%	88%
Cal Poly, Pomona	1,464	48%	79%
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo	1,457	66%	75%
California Institute of Technology	375	93%	98%	Caltech
California State University, Fresno	1,420	53%	78%
California State University, Fullerton	2,017	50%	85%
California State University, Long Beach	2,432	43%	85%
Canisius College	311	43%	97%
Carleton College	280	74%	95%
Carnegie Mellon University	1,189	92%	93%	CMU
Case Western Reserve University	982	75%	94%
Catholic University of America	674	52%	94%
Central Michigan University	1,024	64%	83%	CMU
Centre College	140	94%	96%
Chapman University	1,226	44%	86%
Christopher Newport University	477	60%	94%
Citadel Military College of South Carolina	311	67%	94%
Claremont McKenna College	177	88%	99%	CMC
Clark University	316	66%	95%
Clarkson University	368	68%	86%
Clemson University	1,743	78%	87%
Coastal Carolina University	677	72%	78%
Colby College	237	88%	100%
Colgate University	362	90%	96%
College of Charleston	847	60%	92%	CofC
College of Saint Benedict	151	87%	79%
College of the Holy Cross	330	89%	97%
College of William and Mary	920	72%	96%
Colorado College	245	85%	99%	CC
Colorado School of Mines	456	69%	92%
Colorado State University	1,993	72%	91%	CSU
Columbia University	1,774	90%	100%
Connecticut College	240	73%	95%
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art	198	25%	94%
Cornell College	101	80%	100%
Cornell University	2,154	87%	94%
Creighton University	880	65%	91%
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College	1,126	42%	94%
CUNY Brooklyn College	1,240	38%	92%
CUNY City College	1,270	44%	83%
CUNY Hunter College	1,835	33%	84%
CUNY Lehman College	1,157	21%	69%
Dartmouth College	801	80%	95%
Davidson College	226	92%	98%
Denison University	283	78%	99%
DePaul University	1,792	49%	83%
DePauw University	241	85%	98%
Dickinson College	238	88%	92%
Drake University	460	65%	96%
Drew University	255	51%	99%
Drexel University	1,966	55%	87%
Duke University	1,575	94%	95%
Duquesne University	949	50%	93%
Earlham College	102	90%	95%
East Carolina University	1,417	82%	82%	ECU
Eastern Connecticut State University	470	40%	98%
Eastern Kentucky University	1,008	58%	68%
Eckerd College	169	82%	93%
Elizabethtown College	192	55%	92%
Elon University	582	77%	87%
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	448	76%	80%	ERAU
Emerson College	618	37%	71%
Emory University	1,278	87%	95%
Endicott College	601	19%	79%
Fairfield University	618	50%	91%
Fitchburg State University	310	61%	Not Reported
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University	660	81%	73%
Florida Atlantic University	1,407	63%	83%	FAU
Florida Gulf Coast University	842	61%	74%	FGCU
Florida Institute of Technology	464	58%	89%	FIT
Florida International University	2,236	59%	86%	FIU
Florida Southern College	357	44%	90%
Florida State University	1,924	82%	95%	FSU
Fordham University	1,625	46%	94%
Franklin and Marshall College	270	84%	97%	F&M
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering	63	65%	95%
Furman University	325	80%	95%
George Mason University	2,850	49%	89%	GMU
George Washington University	2,373	48%	93%	GWU; GW
Georgetown College	161	48%	84%
Georgetown University	2,088	56%	79%
Georgia College	424	80%	81%
Georgia Institute of Technology	1,253	85%	88%	Georgia Tech
Georgia Southern University	1,196	82%	83%	GSU
Georgia State University	1,518	77%	93%	GSU
Gettysburg College	301	75%	98%
Gonzaga University	760	59%	89%
Goucher College	148	72%	88%
Grinnell College	201	86%	100%
Grove City College	205	76%	64%
Gustavus Adolphus College	220	83%	95%
Hamilton College	237	82%	95%
Hampshire College	57	67%	Not Reported
Hanover College	95	89%	95%
Harvard University	2,084	85%	91%
Harvey Mudd College	104	94%	98%	HMC
Haverford College	163	86%	98%
Hendrix College	116	80%	88%
High Point University	403	74%	84%
Hillsdale College	215	69%	89%
Hobart William Smith Colleges	201	95%	97%	HWS
Hofstra University	1,154	41%	92%
Hope College	328	69%	77%
Howard University	1,117	79%	92%
Illinois Institute of Technology	640	60%	83%	IIT
Illinois State University	1,355	68%	83%
Illinois Wesleyan University	194	61%	94%
Indiana University Bloomington	2,510	86%	91%	IU; IUB
Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis	3,955	68%	84%	IUPUI
Iowa State University	1,792	85%	93%	ISU
Ithaca College	667	75%	82%
James Madison University	1,408	75%	76%	JMU
John Carroll University	350	49%	97%
Johns Hopkins University	1,459	97%	96%	JHU
Juniata College	158	71%	67%
Kalamazoo College	128	80%	95%
Kansas State University	1,149	87%	80%	KSU; K-STATE
Kent State University at Kent	1,611	58%	79%
Kenyon College	215	81%	90%
Kettering University	161	68%	88%
Knox College	115	84%	97%
La Salle University	418	47%	Not Reported
Lafayette College	292	83%	98%
Lake Forest College	179	58%	96%
Lawrence University	197	85%	93%
Lehigh University	674	82%	94%
Lewis & Clark College	407	51%	91%
Linfield College-McMinnville Campus	161	66%	93%
Louisiana State University	1,537	87%	86%	LSU
Loyola Marymount University	1,062	58%	96%	LMU
Loyola University Chicago	1,638	49%	92%
Loyola University Maryland	454	72%	84%
Lycoming College	112	79%	93%
Macalester College	243	79%	92%
Manhattan College	450	56%	98%
Marist College	574	41%	81%
Marquette University	1,207	59%	88%
Marshall University	678	68%	82%
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts	135	64%	91%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1,617	82%	91%	MIT
Massachusetts Maritime Academy	138	65%	64%	MMA
McDaniel College	613	21%	92%
Mercer University	754	51%	93%
Mercyhurst University	226	58%	66%
Merrimack College	485	42%	89%
Messiah College	342	57%	86%
Miami University	1,176	73%	87%	MU
Michigan State University	2,938	87%	90%	MSU
Michigan Technological University	425	93%	89%
Middlebury College	329	90%	97%
Millersville University of Pennsylvania	398	70%	98%
Millsaps College	97	73%	92%
Milwaukee School of Engineering	251	64%	86%
Mississippi State University	1,401	84%	80%	MSU
Missouri University of Science and Technology	439	77%	96%
Monmouth University	694	45%	84%
Montana State University	1,110	58%	76%
Montclair State University	1,691	37%	94%
Moravian College	375	43%	90%
Morehouse College	229	63%	99%
Mount Holyoke College	243	85%	95%	MHC
Muhlenberg College	303	62%	89%
Murray State University	567	78%	76%
New College of Florida	136	74%	97%
New Jersey Institute of Technology	903	52%	93%	NJIT
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	156	85%	96%	NMIT
New Mexico State University-Main Campus	954	67%	86%
New York Institute of Technology	860	40%	94%
New York University	6,421	46%	96%	NYU
Niagara University	400	40%	96%
North Carolina State University	2,150	86%	92%	NCSU; NC STATE
North Dakota State University-Main Campus	769	85%	87%
Northeastern University	1,920	74%	94%
Northern Arizona University	1,456	67%	82%	NAU
Northern Michigan University	390	72%	68%
Northwestern University	1,714	87%	100%
Norwich University	378	43%	79%
Oakland University	1,175	52%	91%
Oberlin College	308	92%	93%
Occidental College	266	73%	95%	OXY
Ohio State University	5,933	77%	97%	OSU
Ohio University	1,139	82%	80%	OU
Ohio Wesleyan University	187	58%	100%	OWU
Oklahoma State University	1,334	81%	91%	OSU
Old Dominion University	1,409	60%	82%
Oregon Institute of Technology	305	55%	38%
Oregon State University	1,735	77%	83%	OSU
Pennsylvania State University - University Park	3,437	87%	84%	PSU; PENN STATE
Pepperdine University	841	46%	85%
Pitzer College	113	81%	96%
Pomona College	257	77%	97%
Portland State University	1,532	55%	83%
Presbyterian College	100	73%	95%
Princeton University	1,195	84%	94%
Providence College	541	58%	91%
Purdue University	2,741	89%	99%
Quinnipiac University	894	42%	90%
Ramapo College of New Jersey	499	43%	94%
Randolph-Macon College	179	65%	93%
Reed College	153	99%	9400%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	473	92%	95%	RPI
Rhode Island School of Design	528	35%	75%	RISD
Rhodes College	221	82%	97%
Rice University	895	78%	97%
Ripon College	72	72%	96%
Roanoke College	203	81%	88%
Rochester Institute of Technology	1,358	73%	73%	RIT
Roger Williams University	455	42%	92%
Rollins College	Not Reported	100%	92%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	192	97%	97%
Rowan University	1,731	34%	87%
Rutgers University-Camden	633	49%	99%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick	4,098	54%	99%	RU
Rutgers University-Newark	890	66%	99%
Sacred Heart University	917	36%	80%
Saint Anselm College	234	68%	89%
Saint Johns University	150	87%	84%	SJU
Saint Joseph's University	620	43%	90%	SJU
Saint Louis University	1,169	60%	89%
Saint Mary's College	200	66%	89%
Saint Mary's College of California	525	39%	100%
Saint Michael's College	191	61%	89%
Salem State University	673	44%	Not Reported
Salisbury University	631	69%	84%
Salve Regina University	288	44%	83%
Sam Houston State University	989	68%	88%
Samford University	477	76%	87%
San Diego State University	1,903	50%	87%	SDSU
San Francisco State University	1,818	42%	81%	SFSU
San Jose State University	1,954	40%	87%	SJSU
Santa Clara University	885	66%	94%	SCU
Sarah Lawrence College	240	37%	90%
Scripps College	128	77%	98%
Seattle University	676	78%	87%
Seton Hall University	941	49%	89%
Siena College	330	63%	89%
Simmons University	873	26%	72%
Skidmore College	388	74%	88%
Smith College	312	95%	99%
Soka University of America	80	64%	98%
Sonoma State University	508	51%	None
South Dakota State University	641	78%	77%
Southern Connecticut State University	1,039	41%	94%
Southern Methodist University	1,146	67%	85%	SMU
Southwestern University	142	76%	99%
Spelman College	246	73%	91%
St Bonaventure University	230	64%	81%
St John's University-New York	1,379	44%	94%
St Lawrence University	214	81%	99%
St Olaf College	315	64%	97%
St. John's College (MD)	66	89%	92%
St. John's College (NM)	54	89%	94%
St. Mary's College of Maryland	213	60%	98%
Stanford University	1,677	99%	99%
State University of New York at New Paltz	641	54%	85%
Stetson University	444	62%	94%
Stevens Institute of Technology	386	72%	96%	Stevens Tech
Stockton University	783	43%	96%
Stonehill College	283	62%	93%
Stony Brook University	1,592	67%	91%
Suffolk University	623	60%	87%
SUNY at Albany	1,176	57%	96%
SUNY at Fredonia	380	61%	87%
SUNY at Purchase College	444	42%	Not Reported
SUNY College at Brockport	617	54%	86%
SUNY College at Geneseo	331	70%	91%
SUNY College at Oswego	546	67%	83%
SUNY College at Plattsburgh	399	64%	81%
SUNY College at Potsdam	313	73%	87%
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry	167	80%	83%
SUNY Cortland	621	52%	71%
SUNY Oneonta	479	60%	51%
Susquehanna University	226	63%	94%	SU
Swarthmore College	220	90%	100%
Syracuse University	1,662	67%	92%	SU
Temple University	2,775	54%	89%
Tennessee Technological University	584	76%	78%
Texas A & M University-College Station	4,086	88%	75%
Texas Christian University	1,089	64%	87%
Texas State University	1,908	74%	76%	TCU
The College of New Jersey	837	45%	91%
The College of Wooster	203	85%	97%	TCNJ
The University of Montana	601	70%	83%
The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga	747	67%	80%	UTC
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	1,902	88%	86%	UTK
The University of Texas at Arlington	1,752	62%	82%	UT Arlington
The University of Texas at Austin	3,111	83%	91%	UT Austin
The University of Texas at Dallas	1,299	73%	87%	UT Dallas
The University of the South	240	69%	95%	Sewanee
Towson University	1,696	54%	78%
Transylvania University	103	83%	94%
Trinity College	272	84%	95%
Trinity University	344	75%	93%
Truman State University	311	89%	86%
Tufts University	1,079	62%	94%
Tulane University	1,310	66%	93%
Union College	240	86%	97%
United States Air Force Academy	756	77%	54%	USAA
United States Coast Guard Academy	167	87%	46%	USCGA
United States Merchant Marine Academy	132	86%	Not Reported
United States Military Academy	743	82%	51%	USMA
United States Naval Academy	586	96%	68%	USNA
University at Buffalo	1,873	73%	96%
University of Akron Main Campus	1,181	40%	85%
University of Alabama	1,908	76%	86%
University of Alabama at Birmingham	1,177	75%	88%
University of Arizona	2,429	86%	94%	UA
University of Arkansas	1,564	77%	83%
University of California, Berkeley	2,626	70%	99%	UC Berkeley
University of California, Davis	2,284	68%	94%	UC Davis
University of California, Irvine	1,748	87%	98%	UC Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles	2,625	92%	98%	UCLA
University of California, Merced	473	92%	87%	UC Merced
University of California, Riverside	1,196	84%	98%	UCR; UC Riverside
University of California, San Diego	1,623	86%	98%	UCSD; UC San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara	1,246	88%	100%	UCSSB; UC Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz	916	75%	98%	UCSC; UC Santa Cruz
University of Central Florida	2,073	79%	85%	UCF
University of Chicago	1,782	85%	100%	Uchicago
University of Cincinnati	3,508	63%	86%	UC
University of Colorado Boulder	2,333	73%	87%	CU Boulder
University of Connecticut	1,533	81%	93%	UCONN
University of Dallas	217	66%	93%
University of Dayton	958	64%	88%
University of Delaware	1,712	77%	92%
University of Denver	1,511	49%	90%
University of Florida	3,354	87%	93%	UFL
University of Georgia	2,443	86%	95%	UGA
University of Houston	2,585	63%	86%	UH
University of Idaho	639	86%	85%
University of Illinois at Chicago	1,818	74%	87%	UIC
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1,962	99%	94%	UIUC
University of Iowa	1,628	88%	89%
University of Kansas	1,567	88%	96%	KU
University of Kentucky	2,090	69%	93%	UKY
University of Louisiana at Lafayette	864	77%	70%
University of Louisville	1,707	54%	86%
University of Maine	824	61%	87%
University of Mary Washington	341	73%	89%
University of Maryland, Baltimore County	919	61%	85%	UMC
University of Maryland, College Park	2,514	74%	92%	UMD
University of Massachusetts Amherst	1,760	83%	95%	UMass Amherst
University of Massachusetts Boston	1,091	63%	87%	UMass Boston
University of Massachusetts Lowell	999	63%	91%	UMass Lowell
University of Memphis	1,489	60%	78%
University of Miami	1,563	71%	91%	UM
University of Michigan	3,571	82%	93%	UMich
University of Michigan-Dearborn	506	70%	82%
University of Minnesota-Duluth	568	85%	76%
University of Minnesota-Morris	145	71%	95%	UMM
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	3,729	70%	78%	UMN
University of Mississippi	1,348	82%	80%	Ole Miss
University of Missouri-Columbia	1,548	83%	87%	Mizzou
University of Nebraska-Lincoln	1,600	82%	80%	UNL
University of Nevada-Las Vegas	2,043	50%	91%	UNLV
University of Nevada-Reno	1,314	68%	80%	UNR
University of New Hampshire	992	74%	85%	UNH
University of New Mexico	1,345	71%	84%	UNM
University of North Carolina at Asheville	305	73%	86%	UNC Asheville; UNCA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	2,309	73%	81%	UNC Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Charlotte	1,623	70%	85%	UNCC: UNC Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Greensboro	1,145	75%	83%	UNCG; UNC Greensboro
University of North Carolina Wilmington	1,165	62%	84%	UNCW; UNC Wilmington
University of North Dakota	808	65%	72%	UND
University of North Florida	966	60%	84%	UNF
University of North Georgia	983	74%	73%	UNG
University of North Texas	1,571	71%	80%	UNT
University of Northern Colorado	686	64%	85%	UNC
University of Northern Iowa	584	82%	78%
University of Notre Dame	1,370	88%	91%	UND
University of Oklahoma	1,535	82%	86%	OU
University of Oregon	1,382	80%	96%	UO
University of Pennsylvania	1,910	82%	100%	UPenn
University of Pittsburgh	2,344	78%	94%
University of Portland	458	56%	78%
University of Puget Sound	267	82%	94%
University of Redlands	543	39%	89%
University of Rhode Island	1,122	69%	85%	URI
University of Richmond	605	68%	92%
University of Rochester	976	73%	92%	URI
University of San Diego	1,007	48%	93%	USD
University of San Francisco	1,108	41%	96%	USF
University of Scranton	447	63%	89%
University of South Carolina	2,447	63%	88%	USC
University of South Dakota	640	60%	75%	USD
University of South Florida	2,451	61%	83%	USF
University of Southern California	3,390	62%	92%	USC
University of St Thomas	752	55%	95%
University of Tampa	815	52%	90%
University of the Pacific	784	52%	85%
University of Toledo	915	79%	81%
University of Tulsa	443	70%	86%
University of Utah	2,123	67%	88%
University of Vermont	760	80%	85%	UVM
University of Virginia-Main Campus	1,623	96%	93%	UVA
University of Washington	2,947	63%	81%	UW
University of Washington-Bothell Campus	336	58%	Not Reported	UW Bothell
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire	598	72%	78%
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	595	83%	74%
University of Wisconsin-Madison	3,040	86%	91%	UW; UW Madison
University of Wyoming	724	99%	84%
Ursinus College	174	71%	92%
Valparaiso University	339	72%	96%
Vanderbilt University	1,176	80%	97%	Vandy
Vassar College	340	83%	87%
Villanova University	1,213	58%	89%
Virginia Commonwealth University	1,910	65%	74%	VCU
Virginia Military Institute	203	70%	96%	VMI
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	2,290	90%	90%	Virginia Tech
Wabash College	101	86%	98%
Wagner College	291	35%	90%
Wake Forest University	886	71%	93%	WFU
Warren Wilson College	94	57%	96%
Washington & Jefferson College	150	75%	93%
Washington and Lee University	341	74%	94%	WLU
Washington College	145	72%	96%
Washington State University	1,818	72%	87%	WSU
Washington University in St. Louis	1,458	70%	93%	WashU
Wayne State University	1,655	63%	89%
Wellesley College	341	89%	94%
Wentworth Institute of Technology	395	43%	Not Reported
Wesleyan University	430	88%	91%
West Chester University of Pennsylvania	975	69%	87%
West Virginia University	1,544	74%	Not Reported	WVU
Western Carolina University	801	70%	76%	WCU
Western Michigan University	1,144	70%	82%	WMU
Western Washington University	962	68%	91%
Westmont College	145	66%	91%
Wheaton College (IL)	348	63%	95%
Wheaton College (MA)	183	68%	91%
Whitman College	209	90%	93%
Whittier College	162	67%	97%
Whitworth University	297	62%	76%
Wichita State University	844	67%	71%
Widener University	617	43%	92%
Willamette University	245	70%	99%
Williams College	364	81%	99%
Winthrop University	557	51%	87%
Wofford College	173	81%	93%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	530	77%	91%	WPI
Xavier University	795	51%	78%
Yale University	1,833	68%	93%
Yeshiva University	708	42%	91%

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