Faculty Composition (% full-time faculty and % with a terminal degree)

College Transitions provides the percentage of full-time faculty and the percentage of full-time faculty possessing a terminal degree at more than 300 of the most selective colleges in the U.S.

*Data collected from institutional Common Data Set (CDS) forms for 2022-23.

Table updated November 2023

InstitutionFull-Time FacultyFull-Time Faculty w/Terminal Degree
138600Agnes Scott College70%96%
210669Allegheny College86%85%
131159American UniversityAU54%94%
164465Amherst College81%94%
197869Appalachian State UniversityApp State73%75%
104151Arizona State UniversityASU73%83%
100858Auburn University85%87%
164580Babson College72%87%
189088Bard College55%51%
189097Barnard College72%93%
160977Bates College87%99%
223232Baylor University73%89%
238333Beloit College77%94%
230816Bennington College45%85%
164739Bentley University54%83%
156295Berea College67%88%
164748Berklee College of Music29%0%
196079Binghamton University75%92%
142115Boise State University57%74%
164924Boston CollegeBC59%97%
164988Boston UniversityBU70%91%
161004Bowdoin College88%98%
165015Brandeis University68%94%
230038Brigham Young University-ProvoBYU68%93%
217156Brown University92%95%
217165Bryant University56%87%
211273Bryn Mawr College80%96%
211291Bucknell University91%98%
150163Butler University63%86%
110404California Institute of TechnologyCaltech94%99%
111081California Institute of the Arts42%29%
110422California Polytechnic State University-San Luis ObispoCal Poly66%73%
110529California State Polytechnic University-Pomona44%78%
110556California State University-Fresno50%78%
110565California State University-Fullerton48%85%
110583California State University-Long Beach41%79%
110592California State University-Los Angeles44%76%
173258Carleton College80%98%
211440Carnegie Mellon UniversityCMU91%93%
201645Case Western Reserve University74%78%
131283Catholic University of America48%93%
156408Centre College97%99%
230852Champlain College26%68%
111948Chapman University44%87%
112260Claremont McKenna CollegeCMC84%98%
165334Clark University67%93%
190044Clarkson University69%90%
217882Clemson University73%87%
161086Colby College93%100%
190099Colgate University91%95%
217819College of Charleston57%91%
160959College of the Atlantic50%96%
166124College of the Holy Cross91%96%
231624College of William and MaryW&M68%96%
126678Colorado CollegeCC80%78%
126775Colorado School of Mines56%92%
126818Colorado State UniversityCSU71%85%
190150Columbia University in the City of New York50%48%
128902Connecticut College74%95%
190372Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art27%95%
153162Cornell College74%99%
190415Cornell University84%94%
181002Creighton University65%88%
190512CUNY Bernard M Baruch College45%88%
190594CUNY Hunter College32%89%
182670Dartmouth College81%96%
198385Davidson College97%96%
202523Denison University76%97%
144740DePaul University49%83%
150400DePauw University76%98%
212009Dickinson College80%96%
153269Drake University66%96%
184348Drew University51%97%
212054Drexel University54%86%
198419Duke University95%94%
212106Duquesne University49%93%
150455Earlham College91%92%
198464East Carolina UniversityECU75%77%
133492Eckerd College92%89%
212197Elizabethtown College49%88%
198516Elon University80%85%
133553Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University72%79%
165662Emerson College31%74%
165671Emmanuel College54%92%
139658Emory University87%96%
129242Fairfield University49%91%
191126Fashion Institute of TechnologyFIT21%Not Reported
133669Florida Atlantic UniversityFAU62%81%
133881Florida Institute of Technology60%87%
133951Florida International UniversityFIU54%89%
134079Florida Southern College48%87%
134097Florida State UniversityFSU80%96%
191241Fordham University37%94%
212577Franklin and Marshall CollegeF&M78%97%
441982Franklin W Olin College of Engineering74%93%
218070Furman University80%95%
232186George Mason UniversityGMU49%92%
131469George Washington UniversityGWU44%95%
131496Georgetown University56%79%
139861Georgia College & State University78%82%
139755Georgia Institute of TechnologyGeorgia Tech85%94%
139940Georgia State University75%91%
212674Gettysburg College77%97%
235316Gonzaga University57%90%
162654Goucher College56%92%
153384Grinnell College83%97%
212805Grove City College63%92%
173647Gustavus Adolphus College92%91%
191515Hamilton College75%96%
166018Hampshire College96%Not Reported
150756Hanover College75%87%
166027Harvard University86%93%
115409Harvey Mudd CollegeHMC91%98%
212911Haverford College79%98%
107080Hendrix College82%87%
170286Hillsdale College58%90%
191630Hobart William Smith Colleges91%98%
191649Hofstra University40%93%
170301Hope College71%86%
131520Howard UniversityHU70%81%
145725Illinois Institute of TechnologyIIT56%91%
145646Illinois Wesleyan University56%93%
151351Indiana University-BloomingtonIUB83%90%
153603Iowa State University85%93%
191968Ithaca College70%86%
232423James Madison UniversityJMU61%73%
162928Johns Hopkins UniversityJHU97%97%
213251Juniata College68%89%
170532Kalamazoo College82%96%
155399Kansas State University89%74%
203535Kenyon College85%99%
169983Kettering University64%79%
146427Knox College84%93%
213385Lafayette College81%98%
146481Lake Forest College61%92%
239017Lawrence University83%89%
192323Le Moyne College52%88%
213543Lehigh University79%95%
209056Lewis & Clark College46%96%
159391Louisiana State UniversityLSU76%84%
117946Loyola Marymount UniversityLMU54%83%
146719Loyola University ChicagoLUC49%54%
163046Loyola University Maryland75%77%
173902Macalester College78%90%
161299Maine Maritime Academy69%39%
192819Marist College41%80%
239105Marquette University56%89%
166683Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT80%91%
140447Mercer University52%94%
204024Miami University-Oxford80%81%
171100Michigan State UniversityMSU86%90%
171128Michigan Technological University89%90%
230959Middlebury College91%97%
239318Milwaukee School of EngineeringMSOE61%81%
176080Mississippi State University74%83%
178411Missouri University of Science and TechnologyMUST72%95%
180461Montana State University67%47%
140553Morehouse College57%99%
166939Mount Holyoke CollegeMHC79%95%
214175Muhlenberg College56%89%
262129New College of Florida67%96%
185828New Jersey Institute of TechnologyNJIT50%92%
187967New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyNMIT81%90%
193900New York UniversityNYU43%96%
199193North Carolina State UniversityNC State85%92%
167358Northeastern University73%94%
147767Northwestern University88%98%
204501Oberlin College71%95%
120254Occidental CollegeOxy71%95%
204796Ohio State UniversityOSU77%97%
204857Ohio UniversityOU72%72%
204909Ohio Wesleyan University49%97%
209542Oregon State UniversityOSU70%82%
214777Pennsylvania State UniversityPSU; Penn State86%80%
121150Pepperdine University43%89%
121257Pitzer College58%96%
121345Pomona College80%95%
194578Pratt Institute-Main14%79%
186131Princeton University85%94%
217402Providence College57%96%
243780Purdue University-Main Campus89%99%
130226Quinnipiac University36%91%
186201Ramapo College of New Jersey40%96%
209922Reed College93%88%
194824Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRPI90%92%
217493Rhode Island School of DesignRISD40%Not Reported
221351Rhodes College82%98%
227757Rice University79%97%
195003Rochester Institute of TechnologyRIT70%73%
136950Rollins College100%94%
152318Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyRHIT94%98%
184782Rowan University31%87%
186371Rutgers University-Camden50%96%
186380Rutgers University-New BrunswickRU57%54%
186399Rutgers University-Newark59%86%
183239Saint Anselm College72%85%
179159Saint Louis UniversitySLU58%89%
231059Saint Michael's College63%83%
122409San Diego State UniversitySDSU48%84%
122755San Jose State UniversitySJSU44%83%
122931Santa Clara UniversitySCU63%95%
195304Sarah Lawrence CollegeSLC35%91%
123165Scripps College76%99%
236595Seattle University68%89%
195474Siena College62%93%
167783Simmons University19%78%
195526Skidmore College73%87%
167835Smith College95%99%
399911Soka University of America64%98%
228246Southern Methodist UniversitySMU65%85%
228343Southwestern University79%98%
195216St Lawrence UniversitySLU85%100%
174844St Olaf College70%95%
163976St. John's College93%91%
245652St. John's College93%94%
163912St. Mary's College of Maryland58%96%
243744Stanford University81%95%
196176State University of New York at New Paltz51%86%
137546Stetson University61%56%
186867Stevens Institute of Technology69%97%
167996Stonehill College59%93%
196097Stony Brook University65%91%
196219SUNY at Purchase College43%34%
196167SUNY College at Geneseo64%91%
196103SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry77%86%
216287Swarthmore College86%99%
196413Syracuse University66%93%
216339Temple University53%86%
228723Texas A & M University-College Station87%70%
228875Texas Christian UniversityTCU58%86%
229115Texas Tech University69%89%
187134The College of New JerseyTCNJ45%90%
206589The College of Wooster83%98%
193654The New School34%77%
100751The University of Alabama77%83%
180489The University of Montana72%78%
137847The University of Tampa54%89%
221759The University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleUTK85%85%
228778The University of Texas at AustinUT Austin82%91%
228787The University of Texas at DallasUTD; UT Dallas72%93%
221519The University of the South72%95%
124292Thomas Aquinas College78%93%
216366Thomas Jefferson University32%87%
164076Towson University54%74%
130590Trinity College83%93%
229267Trinity University77%97%
178615Truman State University85%86%
168148Tufts University60%95%
160755Tulane University of Louisiana67%91%
196866Union College91%98%
128328United States Air Force AcademyUSAFA99%62%
130624United States Coast Guard AcademyUSCGA84%41%
197027United States Merchant Marine Academy86%Not Reported
197036United States Military AcademyUSMA81%49%
164155United States Naval Academy94%67%
196088University at Buffalo72%94%
100663University of Alabama at BirminghamUAB74%88%
104179University of ArizonaUA86%92%
106397University of Arkansas85%81%
110635University of California-BerkeleyUCB: UC Berkeley70%69%
110644University of California-DavisUCD; UC Davis68%64%
110653University of California-IrvineUCI; UC Irvine84%Not Reported
110662University of California-Los AngelesUCLA83%98%
445188University of California-MercedUC Merced94%87%
110671University of California-RiversideUCR; UC Riverside84%98%
110680University of California-San DiegoUCSD; UC San Diego88%98%
110705University of California-Santa BarbaraUCSB; UC Santa Barbara88%100%
110714University of California-Santa CruzUCSC; UC Santa Cruz84%98%
132903University of Central FloridaUCF74%85%
144050University of ChicagoUChicago89%98%
201885University of Cincinnati-Main Campus63%87%
126614University of Colorado Boulder73%86%
129020University of ConnecticutUConn81%91%
224323University of Dallas64%93%
130943University of DelawareUD72%92%
127060University of DenverUD47%90%
134130University of FloridaUF87%93%
139959University of GeorgiaUGA81%94%
225511University of Houston51%85%
142285University of Idaho79%86%
145600University of Illinois at ChicagoUIC73%91%
145637University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUIUC100%94%
153658University of Iowa88%89%
155317University of KansasKU87%96%
157085University of KentuckyUK62%93%
157289University of Louisville52%88%
161253University of Maine63%85%
232681University of Mary Washington70%94%
163268University of Maryland-Baltimore CountyUMBC58%84%
163286University of Maryland-College ParkUMD73%91%
166629University of Massachusetts-AmherstUMass Amherst82%95%
166638University of Massachusetts-BostonUMass Boston59%84%
166513University of Massachusetts-LowellUMass Lowell60%93%
135726University of MiamiUM68%93%
170976University of MichiganUMich80%90%
174233University of Minnesota-Duluth82%75%
174251University of Minnesota-Morris74%94%
174066University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesUMN68%93%
176017University of MississippiOle Miss81%80%
178396University of Missouri-ColumbiaMizzou79%87%
181464University of Nebraska-LincolnUNL81%83%
182281University of Nevada-Las VegasUNLV49%90%
182290University of Nevada-RenoUNR57%85%
183044University of New HampshireUNH72%85%
199111University of North Carolina at AshevilleUNC Asheville74%85%
199120University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUNC Chapel Hill71%94%
199139University of North Carolina at CharlotteUNCC; UNC Charlotte71%84%
199148University of North Carolina at GreensboroUNCG; UNC Greensboro74%82%
199218University of North Carolina WilmingtonUNC Wilmington61%85%
152080University of Notre DameUND87%90%
207500University of OklahomaOU83%84%
209551University of Oregon75%96%
215062University of PennsylvaniaUPenn80%95%
215293University of Pittsburgh78%94%
209825University of Portland51%67%
236328University of Puget Sound76%91%
121691University of Redlands39%Not Reported
217484University of Rhode IslandURI68%88%
233374University of Richmond69%93%
195030University of Rochester72%93%
122436University of San DiegoUSD49%94%
122612University of San FranciscoUSF40%95%
215929University of Scranton61%85%
218663University of South CarolinaUSC64%89%
137351University of South FloridaUSF61%84%
123961University of Southern CaliforniaUSC59%90%
174914University of St Thomas49%95%
231174University of VermontUVM79%83%
234076University of VirginiaUVA96%92%
377555University of Washington-Bothell Campus60%52%
236948University of Washington-SeattleUW76%85%
240444University of Wisconsin-MadisonUW-Madison86%92%
216524Ursinus College70%89%
221999Vanderbilt UniversityVandy78%97%
197133Vassar College83%94%
216597Villanova University61%88%
234030Virginia Commonwealth UniversityVCU61%77%
233921Virginia TechVirginia Tech89%88%
152673Wabash College85%99%
199847Wake Forest University68%94%
234207Washington and Lee UniversityW&L; WLU85%95%
164216Washington College67%91%
236939Washington State UniversityWSU76%88%
179867Washington University in St LouisWashU69%90%
168218Wellesley College89%95%
168227Wentworth Institute of Technology52%Not Reported
130697Wesleyan University89%92%
216764West Chester University of Pennsylvania70%89%
238032West Virginia UniversityWVU71%0%
125727Westmont College61%96%
149781Wheaton College58%95%
168281Wheaton College72%79%
237057Whitman College88%96%
125763Whittier College80%95%
210401Willamette University71%100%
168342Williams College82%99%
218973Wofford College82%92%
168421Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWPI73%92%
130794Yale University67%92%
197708Yeshiva UniversityYU44%92%

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