The table below lists and compares the top 100 colleges having Highest Faculty Salary with tuition and key admission statistics. You can search schools by using input box in top right corner of table. In addition, you can sort the table a column that you want by clicking/touching the column name of the table.
*The statistics below is only based on data of four-years colleges granting bachelor's degree. Specialized schools such as law schools and medical schools were excluded from the analysis.
| School Name | Type | Tuition | Acceptance Rate | Enrollment | Faculty Salary | Full-time Faculties | Part-time Faculties | Staff Salary | Full-time Staffs | Part-time Staffs | Students to Faculty | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | Private | $56,169 | 3.95% | 15,953 | $188,567 | 3,724 | 500 | $111,107 | 15,271 | 1,402 | 4 to 1 |
| 2 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | Private | $55,587 | 4.01% | 30,391 | $188,515 | 2,120 | 335 | $88,806 | 16,942 | 2,236 | 5 to 1 |
| 3 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | Private | $56,010 | 4.38% | 7,853 | $187,511 | 997 | 208 | $88,871 | 6,350 | 756 | 4 to 1 |
| 4 | Rockefeller University New York, NY | Private | - | - | 255 | $187,106 | 72 | 6 | $79,515 | 1,389 | 77 | - |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | Private | $58,680 | 3.92% | 2,240 | $181,321 | 357 | 36 | $85,383 | 3,041 | 227 | 3 to 1 |
| 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | Private | $55,878 | 4.11% | 11,254 | $179,844 | 1,375 | 306 | $101,605 | 12,790 | 1,242 | 3 to 1 |
| 7 | Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | Private | $63,530 | 4.13% | 30,135 | $176,939 | 4,327 | 1,902 | $87,852 | 18,250 | 2,611 | 6 to 1 |
| 8 | Yale University New Haven, CT | Private | $59,950 | 5.31% | 12,060 | $176,136 | 2,715 | 745 | $87,639 | 14,979 | 1,839 | 4 to 1 |
| 9 | University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | Public | $43,012 ($13,258) | 10.77% | 44,589 | $175,092 | 4,153 | 1,114 | $79,299 | 22,224 | 3,032 | 18 to 1 |
| 10 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | Private | $61,710 | 5.87% | 26,552 | $168,314 | 2,248 | 288 | $75,766 | 17,760 | 1,696 | 6 to 1 |
| 11 | University of Chicago Chicago, IL | Private | $62,241 | 6.48% | 17,834 | $167,140 | 2,376 | 491 | $83,286 | 10,396 | 1,968 | 5 to 1 |
| 12 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | Public | $43,980 ($14,226) | 14.44% | 42,327 | $163,401 | 1,847 | 856 | $89,276 | 10,343 | 1,779 | 19 to 1 |
| 13 | Northwestern University Evanston, IL | Private | $60,768 | 6.97% | 22,603 | $157,615 | 2,325 | 340 | $82,415 | 9,894 | 544 | 6 to 1 |
| 14 | University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | Public | $44,171 ($14,417) | 29.18% | 26,179 | $152,084 | 1,097 | 151 | $76,876 | 4,693 | 463 | 18 to 1 |
| 15 | Duke University Durham, NC | Private | $60,244 | 5.89% | 16,172 | $151,406 | 4,074 | 231 | $68,397 | 17,962 | 1,146 | 6 to 1 |
| 16 | University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA | Public | $44,454 ($14,700) | 34.20% | 39,576 | $149,013 | 2,799 | 634 | $77,965 | 14,306 | 1,960 | 19 to 1 |
| 17 | University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA | Public | $43,529 ($13,775) | 28.82% | 36,303 | $148,395 | 2,125 | 420 | $81,140 | 8,278 | 1,052 | 18 to 1 |
| 18 | University of California-San Francisco San Francisco, CA | Public | - (-) | - | 3,201 | $147,454 | 2,874 | 627 | $100,746 | 11,909 | 1,804 | - |
| 19 | Rice University Houston, TX | Private | $52,895 | 9.48% | 7,643 | $147,399 | 698 | 149 | $71,975 | 3,323 | 220 | 6 to 1 |
| 20 | Dartmouth College Hanover, NH | Private | $60,870 | 6.17% | 6,292 | $143,581 | 718 | 173 | $78,528 | 3,504 | 457 | 7 to 1 |
| 21 | Brown University Providence, RI | Private | $62,304 | 5.51% | 9,948 | $142,952 | 884 | 111 | $75,914 | 4,280 | 374 | 6 to 1 |
| 22 | New York University New York, NY | Private | $56,500 | 12.96% | 52,775 | $141,723 | 5,908 | 4,044 | $87,651 | 18,963 | 4,821 | 8 to 1 |
| 23 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA | Private | $61,706 | 19.04% | 14,934 | $140,471 | 882 | 497 | $83,820 | 3,524 | 665 | 14 to 1 |
| 24 | Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO | Private | $58,866 | 13.00% | 15,449 | $140,377 | 1,717 | 462 | $72,916 | 15,281 | 1,621 | 7 to 1 |
| 25 | Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD | Private | $58,720 | 7.52% | 28,890 | $139,081 | 3,856 | 65 | $81,871 | 16,764 | 2,705 | 6 to 1 |
| 26 | University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA | Private | $61,503 | 12.51% | 46,287 | $139,069 | 2,403 | 1,305 | $84,534 | 14,295 | 2,353 | 9 to 1 |
| 27 | Georgetown University Washington, DC | Private | $59,957 | 11.98% | 19,371 | $139,025 | 1,251 | 967 | $91,996 | 5,189 | 1,102 | 11 to 1 |
| 28 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | Private | $61,015 | 8.69% | 23,620 | $139,021 | 1,858 | 155 | $72,821 | 10,405 | 657 | 9 to 1 |
| 29 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA | Public | $44,399 ($14,645) | 48.75% | 39,074 | $138,585 | 2,678 | 448 | $75,179 | 12,210 | 1,545 | 20 to 1 |
| 30 | Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ | Private | $56,920 | 52.69% | 7,257 | $138,366 | 298 | 137 | $90,233 | 915 | 239 | 12 to 1 |
| 31 | University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA | Public | $43,824 ($14,070) | 58.64% | 19,161 | $137,070 | 688 | 230 | $79,682 | 3,394 | 536 | 25 to 1 |
| 32 | University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA | Public | $53,626 ($19,244) | 20.74% | 25,628 | $134,679 | 2,484 | 130 | $72,798 | 9,780 | 281 | 15 to 1 |
| 33 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | Private | $58,843 | 15.07% | 12,809 | $133,534 | 1,210 | 160 | $68,315 | 5,726 | 500 | 9 to 1 |
| 34 | Claremont McKenna College Claremont, CA | Private | $58,111 | 11.24% | 1,264 | $133,370 | 170 | 9 | $80,873 | 439 | 68 | 8 to 1 |
| 35 | George Washington University Washington, DC | Private | $59,870 | 49.71% | 27,017 | $133,261 | 1,255 | 1,239 | $86,805 | 4,866 | 1,395 | 13 to 1 |
| 36 | Bentley University Waltham, MA | Private | $54,910 | 60.94% | 5,177 | $133,136 | 283 | 140 | $87,052 | 840 | 195 | 11 to 1 |
| 37 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | Private | $56,966 | 7.14% | 13,537 | $133,016 | 1,249 | 275 | $71,566 | 5,245 | 635 | 8 to 1 |
| 38 | Bryant University Smithfield, RI | Private | $47,782 | 73.61% | 3,674 | $132,065 | 170 | 131 | $69,633 | 658 | 144 | 13 to 1 |
| 39 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | Private | $55,468 | 13.05% | 13,997 | $131,922 | 2,037 | 531 | $74,746 | 11,734 | 1,219 | 9 to 1 |
| 40 | Boston University Boston, MA | Private | $59,816 | 18.65% | 32,718 | $131,877 | 3,047 | 899 | $80,831 | 9,030 | 1,376 | 10 to 1 |
| 41 | Teachers College at Columbia University New York, NY | Private | - | - | 4,547 | $130,926 | 226 | 334 | $86,860 | 906 | 469 | - |
| 42 | Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA | Private | $60,703 | 9.99% | 854 | $129,523 | 101 | 12 | $68,579 | 325 | 31 | 8 to 1 |
| 43 | University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA | Public | $43,508 ($13,754) | 65.38% | 26,434 | $129,016 | 1,051 | 160 | $75,743 | 3,997 | 482 | 22 to 1 |
| 44 | Fordham University Bronx, NY | Private | $56,161 | 58.30% | 16,364 | $128,519 | 747 | 890 | $86,326 | 2,314 | 953 | 13 to 1 |
| 45 | Rutgers University-Newark Newark, NJ | Public | $32,409 ($15,208) | 77.43% | 13,231 | $127,804 | 587 | 303 | $73,184 | 1,618 | 342 | 15 to 1 |
| 46 | Barnard College New York, NY | Private | $59,687 | 11.47% | 2,744 | $127,502 | 253 | 71 | $77,736 | 818 | 134 | 9 to 1 |
| 47 | Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA | Private | $57,470 | 45.97% | 7,067 | $125,132 | 552 | 84 | $72,202 | 1,759 | 102 | 9 to 1 |
| 48 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA | Public | $33,964 ($12,852) | 15.96% | 39,771 | $123,824 | 1,122 | 279 | $85,797 | 7,962 | 645 | 19 to 1 |
| 49 | Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA | Private | - | - | 1,949 | $123,802 | 93 | 104 | $74,455 | 282 | 124 | - |
| 50 | The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX | Public | $40,996 ($11,752) | 28.75% | 50,476 | $123,703 | 2,801 | 518 | $68,342 | 13,961 | 2,646 | 17 to 1 |
| 51 | Hofstra University Hempstead, NY | Private | $49,410 | 67.76% | 10,444 | $123,565 | 492 | 672 | $81,992 | 1,662 | 767 | 13 to 1 |
| 52 | Pomona College Claremont, CA | Private | $56,686 | 6.64% | 1,475 | $123,422 | 215 | 52 | $73,298 | 738 | 83 | 6 to 1 |
| 53 | University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD | Public | $38,636 ($10,955) | 52.03% | 40,709 | $122,863 | 1,849 | 665 | $77,511 | 8,916 | 1,084 | 17 to 1 |
| 54 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | Private | $57,592 | 18.38% | 22,905 | $122,650 | 1,399 | 486 | $83,462 | 4,517 | 533 | 14 to 1 |
| 55 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA | Public | $39,906 ($12,076) | 53.48% | 48,149 | $121,459 | 4,720 | 1,145 | $80,528 | 18,232 | 2,457 | 20 to 1 |
| 56 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI | Public | $38,608 ($10,720) | 60.35% | 44,640 | $121,408 | 3,724 | 1,092 | $66,401 | 15,984 | 3,030 | 16 to 1 |
| 57 | Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX | Private | $60,236 | 53.13% | 12,373 | $120,332 | 767 | 379 | $79,761 | 2,401 | 430 | 11 to 1 |
| 58 | Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA | Private | $56,056 | 7.79% | 1,437 | $119,692 | 226 | 22 | $68,517 | 841 | 188 | 7 to 1 |
| 59 | Brandeis University Waltham, MA | Private | $60,006 | 39.14% | 5,440 | $119,511 | 387 | 160 | $79,507 | 1,573 | 412 | 10 to 1 |
| 60 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT | Public | $41,192 ($18,524) | 55.60% | 27,215 | $119,313 | 2,089 | 884 | $77,082 | 8,314 | 1,920 | 16 to 1 |
| 61 | University of Delaware Newark, DE | Public | $36,880 ($15,020) | 72.35% | 23,613 | $119,163 | 1,263 | 28 | $68,230 | 4,841 | 68 | 15 to 1 |
| 62 | CUNY Graduate School and University Center New York, NY | Public | $15,360 ($7,410) | - | 9,300 | $118,835 | 230 | 388 | $92,021 | 1,001 | 714 | 10 to 1 |
| 63 | Williams College Williamstown, MA | Private | $59,660 | 8.83% | 1,987 | $118,755 | 317 | 69 | $73,993 | 1,075 | 233 | 6 to 1 |
| 64 | Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA | Private | $59,380 | 18.85% | 2,183 | $118,620 | 251 | 90 | $65,959 | 923 | 99 | 8 to 1 |
| 65 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY | Private | $59,378 | 40.55% | 11,741 | $118,443 | 2,492 | 292 | $69,653 | 8,960 | 627 | 10 to 1 |
| 66 | Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley Malvern, PA | Public | - (-) | - | 401 | $118,227 | 35 | 21 | $61,318 | 90 | 29 | - |
| 67 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | Private | $58,526 | 53.02% | 7,501 | $118,152 | 414 | 56 | $63,998 | 1,546 | 127 | 17 to 1 |
| 68 | Robert Morris University Moon Township, PA | Private | $32,770 | 93.95% | 4,134 | $117,339 | 182 | 211 | $66,001 | 520 | 213 | 14 to 1 |
| 69 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | Private | $58,924 | 13.54% | 13,519 | $116,341 | 1,286 | 362 | $85,143 | 5,100 | 688 | 5 to 1 |
| 70 | University of Miami Coral Gables, FL | Private | $54,760 | 28.49% | 17,809 | $116,205 | 1,451 | 283 | $75,182 | 11,599 | 565 | 12 to 1 |
| 71 | Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH | Public | $35,019 ($11,936) | 57.18% | 61,369 | $116,105 | 4,451 | 2,310 | $66,654 | 31,708 | 3,322 | 19 to 1 |
| 72 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | Public | $36,891 ($9,028) | 20.40% | 30,092 | $115,921 | 1,910 | 530 | $65,581 | 13,317 | 1,087 | 13 to 1 |
| 73 | Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA | Private | $55,860 | 53.98% | 8,616 | $115,829 | 585 | 273 | $93,790 | 1,535 | 308 | 11 to 1 |
| 74 | Amherst College Amherst, MA | Private | $61,150 | 8.74% | 1,745 | $115,599 | 262 | 17 | $73,121 | 970 | 52 | 7 to 1 |
| 75 | Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL | Private | $50,490 | 66.11% | 6,325 | $115,579 | 387 | - | $75,328 | 1,019 | 285 | 10 to 1 |
| 76 | Adelphi University Garden City, NY | Private | $42,475 | 77.46% | 7,584 | $115,554 | 348 | 644 | $73,531 | 1,051 | 677 | 12 to 1 |
| 77 | Pepperdine University Malibu, CA | Private | $59,702 | 52.71% | 9,554 | $115,419 | 391 | 450 | $79,611 | 1,557 | 515 | 13 to 1 |
| 78 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | Public | $32,892 ($15,442) | 59.66% | 52,679 | $115,406 | 2,434 | 279 | $65,146 | 11,312 | 1,119 | 20 to 1 |
| 79 | The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX | Public | $39,776 ($14,564) | 87.21% | 28,669 | $115,351 | 908 | 282 | $63,433 | 3,251 | 852 | 25 to 1 |
| 80 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA | Public | $36,964 ($16,439) | 65.53% | 31,642 | $114,764 | 1,452 | 308 | $69,109 | 5,154 | 531 | 17 to 1 |
| 81 | Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN | Public | $28,794 ($9,992) | 68.81% | 46,655 | $114,439 | 2,039 | 366 | $59,702 | 9,894 | 1,475 | 13 to 1 |
| 82 | Tufts University Medford, MA | Private | $63,000 | 11.43% | 12,219 | $114,266 | 917 | 509 | $76,425 | 4,099 | 795 | 10 to 1 |
| 83 | Carleton College Northfield, MN | Private | $60,225 | 17.55% | 1,940 | $114,202 | 221 | 73 | $77,647 | 585 | 255 | 8 to 1 |
| 84 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA | Private | $55,731 | 60.21% | 6,920 | $113,623 | 408 | 73 | $71,718 | 1,184 | 99 | 13 to 1 |
| 85 | Roger Williams University Bristol, RI | Private | $39,594 | 90.98% | 4,702 | $113,591 | 192 | 306 | $60,146 | 757 | 403 | 15 to 1 |
| 86 | Yeshiva University New York, NY | Private | $47,500 | 62.70% | 5,524 | $113,454 | 356 | 388 | $87,166 | 1,103 | 436 | 7 to 1 |
| 87 | University of San Diego San Diego, CA | Private | $52,864 | 52.70% | 8,861 | $113,199 | 486 | 511 | $72,643 | 1,689 | 676 | 13 to 1 |
| 88 | University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL | Public | $28,476 ($14,126) | 78.80% | 33,518 | $113,165 | 2,250 | 850 | $68,439 | 11,750 | 1,995 | 18 to 1 |
| 89 | University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI | Public | $34,218 ($12,186) | 69.98% | 18,025 | $113,002 | 1,131 | 543 | $77,601 | 3,748 | 684 | 13 to 1 |
| 90 | New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ | Public | $34,034 ($18,016) | 69.14% | 11,652 | $112,563 | 444 | 343 | $83,319 | 1,374 | 456 | 15 to 1 |
| 91 | Pace University New York, NY | Private | $48,830 | 87.62% | 12,835 | $112,437 | 479 | 822 | $74,709 | 1,415 | 1,780 | 14 to 1 |
| 92 | University of Houston Houston, TX | Public | $21,891 ($9,699) | 65.52% | 47,090 | $112,436 | 1,511 | 322 | $62,818 | 5,121 | 399 | 23 to 1 |
| 93 | CUNY City College New York, NY | Public | $15,290 ($7,340) | 64.06% | 15,227 | $112,435 | 553 | 717 | $76,603 | 1,444 | 1,134 | 15 to 1 |
| 94 | Wellesley College Wellesley, MA | Private | $60,752 | 16.18% | 2,280 | $112,361 | 329 | 85 | $77,867 | 1,023 | 154 | 7 to 1 |
| 95 | Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY | Public | $28,375 ($10,455) | 48.06% | 26,782 | $112,180 | 1,986 | 740 | $77,041 | 4,321 | 1,058 | 19 to 1 |
| 96 | St. John's University-New York Queens, NY | Private | $46,050 | 85.14% | 20,143 | $112,092 | 607 | 772 | $80,692 | 1,579 | 881 | 16 to 1 |
| 97 | Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME | Private | $58,322 | 8.82% | 1,777 | $112,003 | 220 | 23 | $68,689 | 875 | 142 | 8 to 1 |
| 98 | Wesleyan University Middletown, CT | Private | $62,049 | 19.44% | 3,053 | $111,714 | 384 | 48 | $77,143 | 943 | 72 | 8 to 1 |
| 99 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | Public | $33,005 ($15,804) | 68.16% | 50,411 | $111,638 | 3,456 | 2,067 | $74,212 | 16,529 | 2,815 | 16 to 1 |
| 100 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | Public | $53,232 ($16,178) | 20.15% | 47,907 | $110,947 | 6,678 | 1,596 | $73,140 | 21,947 | 2,658 | 11 to 1 |
