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Top 500 Ranked Colleges - Highest Full-Time Faculty Salaries

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Top 500 Ranked Colleges - Highest Full-Time Faculty Salaries

Rank Highest Full-Time Faculty Salaries
2020 2015 School Name 2020 2015
1 2 Rockefeller University $240,679 $205,239 (17.3%)
2 N/A Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso $220,718 Not Available
3 3 California Institute of Technology $218,433 $191,156 (14.3%)
4 9 Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute $199,242 $169,235 (17.7%)
5 7 Harvard University $197,303 $172,308 (14.5%)
6 4 Stanford University $183,730 $180,691 (1.7%)
7 28 University of California-San Francisco $182,116 $139,119 (30.9%)
8 11 Princeton University $181,669 $157,110 (15.6%)
9 8 New York Law School $181,363 $171,258 (5.9%)
10 5 Gooding Institute of Nurse Anesthesia $180,000 No Change
11 10 Brooklyn Law School $177,422 $157,826 (12.4%)
12 2878 Professional Golfers Career College $175,000 $55,285 (216.5%)
13 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $174,887 $144,665 (20.9%)
14 18 Yale University $173,921 $146,119 (19.0%)
15 13 University of Chicago $173,666 $154,145 (12.7%)
16 6 Wolford College $172,329 No Change
17 25 University of California-Los Angeles $171,841 $140,430 (22.4%)
18 24 Columbia University in the City of New York $168,866 $141,353 (19.5%)
19 17 New England Law-Boston $166,222 $148,121 (12.2%)
20 435 Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago $164,367 $88,059 (86.7%)

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