Faculty/Staff OverviewAverage Full-time Instructional Faculty Salaries(Dollars in Thousands)Rank 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12Professor $116.2 $116.8 $115.9 $116.7 $121.7Associate Professor $83.0 $84.6 $82.9 $82.0 $84.4Assistant Professor $68.1 $70.4 $70.4 $70.9 $73.3Instructor $43.7 $45.5 $45.3 $45.0 $46.8All Ranks $87.3 $88.0 $87.4 $86.2 $89.1Notes:• The figures for this table are taken from an Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System reporttitled “Salaries, Tenure, and Fringe Benefits of Full-Time Instructional Faculty.”• Lecturers, research associates, and administrators above the department level are excluded.• All salaries have been reported on an academic-year-equivalent basis. The salaries of 12-month facultymembers have been converted by a factor of nine-elevenths.Salaried PersonnelFaculty/Staff 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12Full-Time Instructional Faculty 1,371 1,369 1,364 1,306 1,368Other Faculty & Research Associates 1,690 1,761 1,913 1,826 1,954P14s (instructional only) 217 229 224 273 264Support Staff 3,774 3,816 3,603 3,461 3,449Total Faculty & Support Staff 7,052 7,175 7,104 6,866 7,035Percent of Instructional Faculty Tenured 63.4 61.9 62.8 61.9 61.7Notes:• Faculty data are based on full-time instructional faculty paid 50 percent or more from instructionalfunds.• Percent tenured is based on full-time instructional faculty who are tenured (does not include those ontenure track).2012-13 <strong>University</strong> <strong>Facts</strong> & <strong>Figures</strong> 17
Measures of Excellence<strong>University</strong> RankingsUndergraduateU.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2013” (fall 2012)• <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> ranked 28th among national public universities. Among all national universities,including such private institutions as Harvard and Yale, <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> ranks 72nd.• The <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> College of Engineering undergraduate program ranked 16th in the nation (tiedwith Pennsylvania State, Rice, and Texas A&M) among all accredited engineering schools that offerdoctorates. The program ranked sixth among engineering schools at public universities.• The Pamplin College of Business ranked 40th among the nation’s undergraduate business programsand 24th among public institutions. Pamplin’s overall ranking places it in the top 10 percent of the445 U.S. undergraduate programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools ofBusiness International.• The College of Engineering’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics ranked fifth in thenation, tying with Stanford <strong>University</strong>. Other notable placements: The Charles E. Via Jr. Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering’s two programs ranked ninth and 12th, respectively. TheDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering ranked 10th, with the Department of Aerospaceand Ocean Engineering ranking 13th for its aerospace program; the Department of MechanicalEngineering at 15th; and the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 17th.• The university was also listed among 33 universities named as having outstanding “undergraduateresearch and creative project” programs for undergraduate students, specifically targeting freshmen.The ranking was listed alphabetically.The university’s undergraduate architecture program in the College of Architecture and UrbanStudies’ School of Architecture + Design was ranked third in the nation in the 13th annual America’sBest Architecture & Design Schools study conducted by the journal DesignIntelligence. The school’sundergraduate program in interior design was ranked 10th and the graduate landscape architectureprogram, offered in both Blacksburg and in the National Capital Region, was ranked 12th.<strong>Tech</strong>’s apparel program was ranked 15th in the world by Fashion-Schools.org, based on the quality ofprograms offered, job and internship placements, industry reputation, teaching facilities, and tuitioncosts.The Princeton Review ranked <strong>Tech</strong> second in the nation for Best Campus Food, third for Their StudentsLove These Colleges, fourth for Town-Gown Relationships are Great, and sixth for Best Quality of Life.Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> among the 100 public colleges anduniversities that offer a first-class educational experience at a bargain price.<strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong>, with an average starting salary of $51,600 for graduates, ranked fifth in the nation in 2011in that metric among NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools, behind Stanford, Duke, Georgia<strong>Tech</strong>, and Notre Dame, according to the website Payscale.com. The ACC ranked first among all FBSconferences. <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> also ranked in the top 20 nationally for mid-career salaries of graduates of FBSschools. At 14th, <strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Tech</strong> graduates bring in an average mid-career salary of $91,500.18<strong>University</strong> <strong>Facts</strong> & <strong>Figures</strong> 2012-13