The Stanford Faculty
David Starr Jordan was appointed president in March 1891, and by June his first faculty -- 15 men of "youth and scholarly promise" -- had accepted appointments. Jordan sought professors who combined abilities for teaching and research, and he wrote, "Mr. Stanford wants me to get the best. He wants no ornamental or idle professors."
Today, Stanford has 1,995 tenure-line faculty, senior fellows and center fellows at specified policy centers and institutes, and Medical Center-line faculty. Faculty at Stanford are expected to be among the best teachers and researchers in their fields. There are 518 faculty members appointed to endowed chairs.
Stanford's current community of scholars includes:
- 19 Nobel laureates
- 5 Pulitzer Prize winners
- 24 MacArthur Fellows
- 3 National Humanities Medal recipients
- 18 National Medal of Science recipients
- 2 National Medal of Technology recipients
- 268 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members
- 152 National Academy of Sciences members
- 95 National Academy of Engineering members
- 66 Institute of Medicine members
- 31 National Academy of Education members
- 51 American Philosophical Society members
- 7 Wolf Foundation Prize winners
- 6 Koret Foundation Prize winners
- 3 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners
Nobel Laureates
Twenty-seven Stanford faculty have won the Nobel Prize since the university's founding. Nineteen Nobel laureates are currently members of the Stanford community. For more details, please visit our Stanford Nobel Prize website.
Pulitzer Prize Winners
- Adam Johnson
- 2013, Fiction
David M. Kennedy
- 2000, History
- Jack Rakove
- 1997, History
- James Risser
- 1976, 1979, National Reporting
- Carl N. Degler
- 1972, History
Faculty Profile, Fall 2012
| * Includes tenure-line faculty, senior fellows and center fellows at specified policy centers and institutes, and Medical Center-line faculty. | ||
| Total Faculty | 1,995* | |
|---|---|---|
| Members of Academic Council | 1,542 | |
| Percentages may be rounded | ||
| Graduate School of Business | 112 | (6%) |
| School of Earth Sciences | 52 | (3%) |
| Graduate School of Education | 57 | (3%) |
| School of Engineering | 238 | (12%) |
| School of Humanities and Sciences | 564 | (28%) |
| School of Law | 55 | (3%) |
| School of Medicine | 867 | (43%) |
| Other: (SLAC, FSI, STET) | 50 | (3%) |
| Tenure Status/Appointment Line | ||
| Tenure Line, Tenured | 1,086 | (54%) |
| Tenure Line, Non Tenured | 312 | (16%) |
| Non-Tenure Line | 148 | (7%) |
| Medical Center Line | 449 | (23%) |
| Tenure-Line Faculty | ||
| Professors | 865 | (62%) |
| Associate Professors | 252 | (18%) |
| Assistant Professors | 281 | (20%) |
| Faculty Appointed to Endowed Professorships | 518 | |
| Faculty Holding Highest Degree in Their Field | 1,981 | (99%) |
| Sex | ||
| Women | 533 | (27%) |
| Men | 1,462 | (73%) |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||
| African American/Black | 55 | (3%) |
| Asian | 314 | (14%) |
| Hispanic | 77 | (4%) |
| Native American | 5 | (<1%) |
| Non-Minority | 1,478 | (74%) |
| Two or more races | 14 | (<1%) |
| Unidentified/Declined to State | 52 | (3%) |
