DATABYTES

COMPILED BY MICHAEL GIBBONS
INFOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY I-SHAN CHEN

Fifty percent of all tenured and tenure-track engineering faculty members are full professors.

That’s down slightly from the 52 percent reported in 2001. Yet the proportion of women at this highest level has increased from 4.4 percent to 6.9 percent during the same period. Median salaries for full professors saw the largest increase of the three faculty levels over last year, increasing by 4.7 percent. Other faculty data trends can be viewed at www.asee.org/colleges.

TOTAL NUMBER OF TENURED/TENURE-TRACK FACULTY
FULL PROFESSORS	11,853
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS	6,440
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS	5,605

CHANGE IN MEDIAN SALARIES FROM 2007 TO 2008*
FULL PROFESSORS - UP 4.7%	$118,824
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS - UP 4.1%	$90,276
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS - UP 3.7%	$79,263
* Data are for 78 public and private institutions that reported engineering faculty salaries for both the 2006-07 and 2007-08 9-month academic years.

SHARE OF FACULTY MEMBERS WHO ARE WOMEN
FULL PROFESSORS	6.9%
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS	13.5%
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS	20.2%
ALL LEVELS	11.8%

SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST TENURED/TENURE-TRACK ENGINEERING FACULTY**
1. Georgia Institute of Technology	442
2. University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign	417
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	371
4. Texas A&M University	349
5. Virginia Tech	337
6. Pennsylvania State University	326
7. University of Michigan	320
8. Purdue University	317
9. North Carolina State University	289
10. University of Florida	288
11. Ohio State University	253
12. University of Texas at Austin	251
13. Cornell University	243
14. University of California, Berkeley	241
15. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	238
16. Stanford University	228
17. Iowa State University	220
18. University of California, Davis	207
19. University of Washington	205
20. University of Maryland, College Park	203
21. Arizona State University	202
22. Clemson University	198
23. University of Wisconsin, Madison	190
24. University of California, San Diego	179
25. University of Arizona	177
** 326 schools reported

Data source: American Society for Engineering Education.

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