Colleges Fudge F/T Faculty Employment Numbers
by P.D. Lesko
EACH YEAR U.S. News and World Report publishes a
list of university and college rankings based, in part, on
information supplied by participating institutions. The Petersen’s
Guides to college and university programs are compiled
in much the same way. Colleges and universities supply answers
to questions about the institution and its faculty. During
2001, there were significant discrepancies between the percentages
of full-time faculty reported by the top 10 institutions as
ranked in 2001 by U.S. News and World Report, and also
profiled in the 2001 Petersen’s Guide to 4 Year Colleges.
| College | % of F/T Faculty Reported to U.S. News & World Report |
Ranking by U.S. News & World Report |
% of F/T Faculty Reported to the Petersen’s Guide to 4-Year Colleges |
| Princeton | 92 percent |
1 | 80 percent |
| Harvard | 99 percent |
2 | 73 percent |
| California Institute of Technology |
96 percent |
3 | 88 percent |
| MIT | 90 percent |
4 | 76 percent |
| Stanford | 79 percent |
5 | 98 percent * |
| University of Pennsylvania |
90 percent |
6 | 85 percent |
| Duke University |
98 percent |
7 | 100 percent** |
| Dartmouth | 86 percent |
8 | 67 percent |
| Columbia | 94 percent |
9 | 100 percent*** |
| Cornell | 98 percent |
10 | 92 percent |
| University of Chicago |
95 percent |
10 | 87 percent |
* On Stanford University’s Web page
8 percent of faculty as listed as non tenure line.
** On Duke University’s Web page, the Mathematics Department
lists 26 full-time faculty and 16 adjunct faculty teaching
in Spring semester 2001
*** On Columbia University’s Web page, the Journalism Department
lists 28 full-time faculty and 121 adjunct faculty teacing
Spring semester 2001.
