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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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