Faculty Data Trends

In fall 2022, the Board of Visitors requested more information from the provost and Faculty Assembly on the nature of faculty work at William & Mary. In April 2023, the provost began a presentation series introducing the primary components of faculty work: teaching, research, and service (forthcoming Spring 2025).  

Faculty Data Trends features faculty counts and instructional data from fall 2024 — census data used for federal and state reporting. For the faculty counts, provided is an overview of William & Mary’s entire faculty, as well as each school or academic unit’s faculty count. The instructional data highlight the average number of courses taught per academic year. 

Deans, Institutional Research and the University Registrar have vetted these data. For William & Mary community members, more detailed data is available in the Fact Book. 

Jump to:

• Total University Level Faculty
• Arts & Sciences Faculty
• Business School Faculty
• Law School Faculty
• School of Education Faculty
• Batten School of Marine Science Faculty
• Teaching Data

Total University Level Faculty

Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Six-column table indicating the number of faculty for each rank level and tenure status with header cells in the first two rows

Rank	Tenure Status
	Tenured	Tenure Eligible	Full-Time NTE	Part-Time Faculty	Total Count
Professor	237	3	54	-	294
Associate Professor	150	8	45	-	203
Assistant Professor	-	96	51	-	147
Lecturer	-	-	1	-	1
Instructor	-	-	59	-	59
Part-Time Faculty	-	-	-	201	201
Total	387	107	210	201	905

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Arts & Sciences Faculty

Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Six-column table indicating the number of faculty for each rank level and tenure status with header cells in the first two rows

Rank	Tenure Status
	Tenured	Tenure Eligible	Full-Time NTE	Part-Time Faculty	Total Count
Professor	168	-	39	-	207
Associate Professor	124	1	26	-	151
Assistant Professor	-	74	26	-	100
Instructor	-	-	42	-	42
Part-Time Faculty	-	-	-	91	91
Total	292	75	133	91	591

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Business School Faculty

Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Six-column table indicating the number of faculty for each rank level and tenure status with header cells in the first two rows

Rank	Tenure Status
	Tenured	Tenure Eligible	Full-Time NTE	Part-Time Faculty	Total Count
Professor	18	-	6	-	24
Associate Professor	6	4	10	-	20
Assistant Professor	-	4	7	-	11
Lecturer	-	-	1	-	1
Part-Time Faculty	-	-	-	25	25
Total	24	8	24	25	81

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Law School Faculty

Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Six-column table indicating the number of faculty for each rank level and tenure status with header cells in the first two rows

Rank	Tenure Status
	Tenured	Tenure Eligible	Full-Time NTE	Part-Time Faculty	Total Count
Professor	23	-	-	-	23
Associate Professor	-	1	1	-	2
Assistant Professor	-	1	-	-	1
Instructor	-	-	14	-	14
Part-Time Faculty	-	-	-	55	55
Total	23	2	15	55	95

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School of Education Faculty

Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Six-column table indicating the number of faculty for each rank level and tenure status with header cells in the first two rows

Rank	Tenure Status
	Tenured	Tenure Eligible	Full-Time NTE	Part-Time Faculty	Total Count
Professor	9	1	1	-	11
Associate Professor	10	1	6	-	17
Assistant Professor	-	8	12	-	20
Instructor	-	-	3	-	3
Part-Time Faculty	-	-	-	24	24
Total	19	10	22	24	75

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Batten School of Marine Science Faculty

Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Six-column table indicating the number of faculty for each rank level and tenure status with header cells in the first two rows

Rank	Tenure Status
	Tenured	Tenure Eligible	Full-Time NTE	Part-Time Faculty	Total Count
Professor	19	2	7	-	28
Associate Professor	10	1	2	-	13
Assistant Professor	-	6	5	-	11
Part-Time Faculty	-	-	-	3	3
Total	29	9	14	3	55

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Teaching Data 

Average teaching loads for respective academic years
Source: Fact Book via Qlik (produced by Institutional Research)

Five-column table with header cells in the first row

School/Faculty	T/TE 2021/2022	T/TE 2024/2025	NTE 2021/2022	NTE 2024/2025
Arts & Sciences	3.7	4.1	7.5	7.4
Business	4.5	6.5	8.4	8.2
Education	3	3.3	3.9	4.7
Law	3.2	3.5	4.2	4.4
Marine Science	1.5	1.6	0.6	0.4

Five-column table with header cells in the first row

School/Faculty	T/TE 2021/2022	T/TE 2024/2025	NTE 2021/2022	NTE 2024/2025
Area I - Arts & Humanities	4	5.1	7	8.0
Area II - Social Sciences	3.9	4.1	7.1	7.3
Area III - Natural Sciences	3.2	3.5	9.7	8.7

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