Monday, March 26, 2012

Faculty Pay around the World

A new analysis of faculty salaries at public universities worldwide -- designed to make comparisons possible by focusing on purchasing power, not pure salaries -- finds that Canada offers the best faculty pay among 28 countries analysed.

Monthly average salaries of public Higher Education faculty, using U.S. Purchasing Power Parity index (PPP) Dollars
 Country                 
Entry
Average
Top
Armenia
   $405
   $538
   $665
Russia
   433
   617
   910
China
   259
   720
1,107
Ethiopia
   864
1,207
1,580
Kazakhstan
1,037
1,553
2,304
Latvia
1,087
1,785
2,654
Mexico
1,336
1,941
2,730
Czech Republic
1,655
2,495
3,967
Turkey
2,173
2,597
3,898
Colombia
1,965
2,702
4,058
Brazil
1,858
3,179
4,550
Japan
2,897
3,473
4,604
France
1,973
3,484
4,775
Argentina
3,151
3,755
4,385
Malaysia
2,824
4,628
7,864
Nigeria
2,758
4,629
6,229
Israel
3,525
4,747
6,377
Norway
4,491
4,940
5,847
Germany
4,885
5,141
6,383
Netherlands
3,472
5,313
7,123
Australia
3,930
5,713
7,499
United Kingdom
4,077
5,943
8,369
Saudi Arabia
3,457
6,002
8,524
United States
4,950
6,054
7,358
India
3,954
6,070
7,433
South Africa 
3,927
6,531
9,330
Italy
3,525
6,955
9,118
Canada
5,733
7,196
9,485

Saturday, March 24, 2012

UK university league table (2012 and 2011)

2012  2011
1 2 Cambridge
2 1 Oxford
3 3 Imperial College London
4 5 London School of Economics
5 4 Durham
6 6 St Andrews
7 9 University College London
8 7 Warwick
9 8 Lancaster
10 12 Bath
11 16 Bristol
12 10 York
13 11 Edinburgh
14 14 Southampton
15 24 Exeter
16 13 King's College London
17 18 Nottingham
18 15 SOAS
19 21 Loughborough
19 19 Sussex
21 26 Glasgow
22 23 Birmingham
23 22 Leicester
24 29 Newcastle
25 17 Aston
26 25 Sheffield
27 28 East Anglia
28 33 Surrey
29 31 Manchester
30 32 Liverpool
31 35 Queen's, Belfast
32 27 Leeds
33 30 Royal Holloway
34 38 Kent
34 40 Reading
36 39 Queen Mary
37 41 Cardiff
38 37 Essex
38 34 Heriot-Watt
40 35 Strathclyde
41 47 City
42 20 Buckingham
43 45 Dundee
44 43 Keele
45 52 Stirling
46 44 Aberdeen
46 50 Oxford Brookes
48 41 Hertfordshire
49 47 Aberystwyth
50 46 Brunel
51 51 Robert Gordon
52 54 Ulster
53 65 Plymouth
54 60 Swansea
55 49 Nottingham Trent
56 53 Chichester
57 57 Goldsmiths College
58 67 Huddersfield
59 70 University of the Arts, London
60 64 Northumbria
61 68 West of England, Bristol
62 55 Bournemouth
62 56 Hull
62 68 Sheffield Hallam
65 72 Central Lancashire
66 58 Birmingham City
67 71 Lincoln
68 73 Brighton
68 59 UWIC, Cardiff
70 76 Winchester
71 97 Middlesex
72 75 Coventry
73 61 Bradford
73 87 Roehampton
75 62 Gloucestershire
76 79 Glasgow Caledonian
77 94 Westminster
78 63 Bangor
79 109 University for the Creative Arts
80 81 Chester
81 65 De Montfort
81 89 Portsmouth
83 86 Glamorgan
84 74 Edinburgh Napier
85 83 Bath Spa
86 81 Cumbria
87 77 Queen Margaret
88 84 Kingston
89 89 University of Wales, Newport
90 105 Teesside
91 93 Sunderland
92 - Trinity Saint David
93 89 Manchester Metropolitan
93 95 West London
95 98 Abertay Dundee
95 85 Leeds Metropolitan
97 96 Salford
98 88 Edge Hill
99 80 Staffordshire
100 106 Canterbury Christ Church
101 102 Liverpool John Moores
102 78 York St John
103 101 Bedfordshire
104 92 Glyndwr
105 100 Northampton
106 102 Worcester
107 108 Buckinghamshire New
108 104 Derby
109 110 Greenwich
110 106 Anglia Ruskin
111 111 Southampton Solent
112 - West of Scotland
113 113 East London
114 112 Bolton
115 115 London Metropolitan
116 114 London South Bank

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