Professoriate Faculty by School
Professoriate faculty headcounts are displayed by school of primary appointment. Two departments at Stanford belong to more than one school: Civil & Environmental Engineering belongs to both the School of Engineering and the Doerr School of Sustainability, and Bioengineering belongs to both the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine. Faculty members whose primary appointment is in one of these departments are included in the headcounts of both schools to which the department belongs. The headcount Total column shown in the table below counts all faculty members only once.
The School of Medicine has the highest total number of faculty for all academic years, and its headcount has been increasing steadily every year since 2015–16. Humanities & Sciences has the second highest number of faculty, but its headcount declined since 2019–20. The Graduate School of Business saw a decline in headcount between 2019–20 and 2021–22, then rebounded in 2023–24 and remains steady. The data are sourced from the IR&DS Faculty Snapshot taken annually on September 1. See the Methodology & Definitions section for more details.
Methodology & Definitions
Primary Appointment
A primary appointment is a formal association between an individual and an academic department where a majority of or all research, teaching, and clinical duties occurs. These data reflect the parent school, institute, or center of the department where each Professoriate member's primary appointment resides. Each individual has exactly one primary appointment.
- Data Governance Center
Professoriate Faculty Headcount
Headcounts are based on primary appointments for all members of the Professoriate as of September 1, which is the effective date that a term of appointment commences each academic year. Faculty on leave are included; emeriti are excluded.
- Data Source(s): Institutional Research and Decision Support via Faculty Snapshot
- Faculty Handbook, §2.7 [2.7.5(5)]
Professoriate Faculty
The Professoriate includes all members with appointments as Tenure Line faculty, Non-Tenure Line faculty, University Medical Line faculty (formerly Medical Center Line), and at designated policy centers and institutes, Senior Fellows and Center Fellows. The Other group in the visualization captures Non-Tenure Line faculty, Center Fellows, and Senior Fellows. For more information on specific appointments, please refer to the relevant sections of the Faculty Handbook below.
Academic Council Professoriate
The Academic Council Professoriate is a subset of the Professoriate faculty consisting of the following positions:
Tenure Line faculty
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
- Professor
Non-Tenure Line faculty
- Assistant Professor (Research, Teaching)
- Associate Professor (Applied Research, Clinical, Performance, Teaching, Research)
- Professor (Applied Research, Clinical, Performance, Teaching, Research)
- Senior Fellow at designated policy centers and institutes
- Center Fellow at designated policy centers and institutes as of 2020–21
For more information about the role and authority of the Academic Council Professoriate, please refer to the Faculty Handbook.
- Faculty Handbook, §1.2 [1.2.6]
School
A School is the highest level academic unit under the University in the organizational hierarchy, and it is headed by a Dean. Stanford's seven Schools and designated policy centers and institutes are represented in the data. The Schools are as follows:
Label School Business Graduate School of Business Earth School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences Sustainability Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Education Graduate School of Education Engineering School of Engineering Humanities & Sciences School of Humanities and Sciences Law Law School Medicine School of Medicine The Other group includes:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
- Senior Fellows and Center Fellows in designated policy centers and institutes
Hoover Senior Fellows are not included. For more information about Senior Fellows and Center Fellows, please see the Faculty Handbook, §2.3 via the link below.
- Data Governance Center
- Faculty Handbook, §1.1 [1.1.4]
- Faculty Handbook, §2.3
Data
The data are available for download in Google Drive.
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