<p>Here is a list of top colleges sorted by the percent of full-time faculty who are associate or full professors.</p>
<p>From IPEDS.</p>
<p>Is a high percentage good or bad? Does a high percentage of senior faculty mean more experienced and competent teachers and researchers? Or, does it mean more dead wood and faculty who are past their prime? Is it better to be somewhere in the middle? Does it mean that working conditions are favorable and faculty tend to stay? Does it mean that there is little pressure on faculty to work hard and produce? </p>
<p>Virginia Military Institute 78.4%
Davidson College 77.2%
Hanover College 76.8%
Presbyterian College 75.3%
Ohio Wesleyan University 75.0%
Wofford College 74.5%
Mills College 74.4%
Birmingham Southern College 74.0%
Austin College 73.7%
Furman University 73.1%
Wheaton College 73.0%
Auburn University Main Campus 71.4%
Scripps College 71.1%
Smith College 70.5%
Illinois Wesleyan University 70.2%
Oberlin College 69.7%
Bard College 69.3%
Brandeis University 69.0%
Brigham Young University 68.7%
Trinity College 68.7%
University of Notre Dame 68.7%
Randolph-Macon College 68.1%
Bates College 67.9%
New College of Florida 67.6%
George Washington University 67.2%
Kenyon College 67.1%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 67.1%
Harvey Mudd College 67.0%
Hamilton College 67.0%
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 66.8%
Swarthmore College 66.3%
Ohio State University-Main Campus 66.3%
Hollins University 66.3%
Sewanee: The University of the South 66.2%
University of Wisconsin-Madison 66.2%
University of Virginia-Main Campus 66.0%
College of Saint Benedict 66.0%
University of Connecticut 65.9%
DePauw University 65.7%
Washington and Lee University 65.7%
Juniata College 65.4%
Hope College 65.2%
Hendrix College 64.8%
Saint Johns University 64.7%
Colorado College 64.6%
Dartmouth College 64.5%
Reed College 64.4%
College of William and Mary 64.3%
Colby College 64.1%
Southwestern University 63.9%
Syracuse University 63.9%
Carleton College 63.7%
Colgate University 63.6%
Millsaps College 63.3%
College of the Holy Cross 63.1%
Centre College 63.1%
Willamette University 63.0%
Lafayette College 62.9%
Haverford College 62.8%
University of Delaware 62.7%
Michigan State University 62.0%
St. Olaf College 61.8%
Union College 61.8%
Macalester College 61.8%
Bowdoin College 61.6%
Wells College 61.4%
Pitzer College 61.3%
Drew University 61.3%
Wheaton College 61.0%
SUNY at Binghamton 60.9%
University of Iowa 60.7%
Allegheny College 60.5%
Vassar College 60.4%
Williams College 60.4%
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 60.4%
Claremont McKenna College 60.2%
Pomona College 59.8%
Texas A & M University 59.7%
Middlebury College 59.6%
Pepperdine University 59.5%
University of California-Santa Barbara 59.4%
Mount Holyoke College 59.3%
Earlham College 59.3%
Occidental College 59.2%
Connecticut College 59.0%
The University of Tennessee 58.9%
Bucknell University 58.8%
Augustana College 58.4%
The University of Texas at Austin 58.4%
Agnes Scott College 58.3%
Tufts University 58.3%
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 58.2%
Clark University 58.1%
Indiana University-Bloomington 57.8%
Fordham University 57.6%
Kalamazoo College 57.6%
Gustavus Adolphus College 57.5%
Beloit College 57.5%
Gettysburg College 57.3%
Hobart William Smith Colleges 57.2%
Amherst College 57.2%
Knox College 57.1%
Boston College 57.1%
Wabash College 57.0%
St Lawrence University 56.7%
Wellesley College 56.6%
Purdue University-Main Campus 56.4%
Miami University-Oxford 56.4%
Muhlenberg College 56.4%
The College of Wooster 56.3%
Rutgers University-New Brunswick 56.1%
Case Western Reserve University 56.0%
Ursinus College 55.8%
Northwestern University 55.7%
Sweet Briar College 55.6%
Wesleyan University 55.4%
Bryn Mawr College 54.9%
University of Southern California 54.8%
Wake Forest University 54.7%
Franklin and Marshall College 54.7%
University of Richmond 54.4%
Clemson University 54.1%
Whitman College 53.9%
Southern Methodist University 53.8%
University of Puget Sound 53.8%
University of California-Los Angeles 53.6%
Boston University 53.3%
Grinnell College 53.2%
University of California-Berkeley 53.2%
University of California-Davis 52.7%
Tulane University of Louisiana 52.7%
St Mary's College of Maryland 52.6%
Saint Louis University-Main Campus 52.6%
Lehigh University 52.6%
University of California-San Diego 52.5%
Marquette University 51.7%
Dickinson College 51.7%
University of Georgia 51.6%
Skidmore College 51.2%
Baylor University 51.2%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 50.9%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 50.8%
Duke University 50.7%
Rhodes College 50.7%
University of Florida 50.5%
Lawrence University 50.3%
Denison University 50.2%
University of California-Santa Cruz 50.0%
Columbia University in the City of New York 49.9%
University of California-Irvine 49.5%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 49.5%
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 49.4%
Stevens Institute of Technology 49.3%
Georgetown University 49.2%
Brown University 49.2%
University of Denver 48.3%
Spelman College 48.3%
University of California-Riverside 48.0%
Rice University 48.0%
New York University 47.8%
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 47.0%
Albion College 46.7%
University of Pennsylvania 46.3%
American University 45.5%
Barnard College 45.5%
Stanford University 45.3%
Cornell University 43.2%
University of Maryland-College Park 43.2%
Yeshiva University 42.9%
Goucher College 42.5%
Vanderbilt University 42.5%
Carnegie Mellon University 42.3%
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 41.9%
University of Rochester 41.6%
Princeton University 41.6%
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 41.3%
Washington University in St Louis 41.1%
Emory University 40.2%
Johns Hopkins University 40.0%
Harvard University 38.7%
Iowa State University 38.6%
University of Miami 38.1%
University of Chicago 36.4%
Yale University 35.7%
University of Colorado at Boulder 34.5%
University of Missouri-Columbia 34.4%
California Institute of Technology 25.6%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 17.3%</p>