Graduate Faculty at a Glance

The Graduate Faculty population of each college/school offering graduate programs is calculated annually on October 31 to determine the proportional representation of each unit to the Graduate Council. The following statistics present an overview of the landscape of Graduate Faculty membership across the University from the last analysis on October 31, 2023.

Graduate Faculty by Appointment Type keyboard_arrow_down

The Graduate Faculty at Penn State consists of members from varied faculty roles including tenure-line faculty, teaching faculty, research faculty, and ARL faculty.

Appointment Type	Graduate Faculty Members
Tenure-Line	2,619
Non-Tenure-Line	479
Total	3,098

Graduate Faculty by Program Type keyboard_arrow_down

Graduate degree programs at Penn State are categorized as either research degrees (Ph.D, M.A., and M.S.) focused on developing a student’s ability to expand the frontiers of knowledge through production of creative scholarly products or professional degrees (all other graduate degree types) focused on developing a student’s ability to generate creative approaches for improved professional practice. To align with the various policies around these degree types, Graduate Faculty membership is tracked for who contributes to research and professional degrees. Many faculty members contribute to both degree types.

Contribution Type	Graduate Faculty Members
Research Degree Programs Only	1,685
Professional Degree Programs Only	307
Both Research and Professional	1,106

Graduate Faculty by College/School keyboard_arrow_down

Each Graduate Faculty member is affiliated with a college that offers graduate degree programs for the purposes of determining proportional representation to the Graduate Council. In cases where a Graduate Faculty member's primary appointment is outside of a college offering graduate programs, they are affiliated with the college that nominated them.

College/School	Graduate Faculty Members
College of Engineering	459
College of the Liberal Arts	454
Eberly College of Science	314
College of Agricultural Sciences	285
College of Medicine	252
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences	204
College of Health and Human Development	188
Capital College	176
College of Arts and Architecture	170
College of Education	164
Smeal College of Business	162
College of Information Sciences and Technology	64
Behrend College	53
Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications	39
Great Valley School of Graduate Professional Studies	36
Ross and Carol Nese College Nursing	36
University College	26
School of International Affairs	16

Graduate Faculty Members by Campus keyboard_arrow_down

The Graduate Faculty at Penn State includes members across the Commonwealth at the following campuses (based on office address).

Campus	Graduate Faculty Members
Abington	3
Altoona	17
Beaver	2
Behrend	56
Berks	11
Brandywine	3
Dubois	5
Great Valley	36
Greater Allegheny	1
Harrisburg	172
Hazleton	3
Hershey	220
Lehigh Valley	1
Mont Alto	5
Schuylkill	1
Scranton	3
University Park	2,411
Wilkes-Barre	2