Faculty and Staff
The original faculty of six in 1874 has grown to 2,588 tenure and tenure-track faculty in the Purdue Statewide System by fall 2008 totals. The number of faculty and staff members system-wide is 19,141.
| West Lafayette Campus | Regional Campuses & Statewide Technology* | Total | |
| Tenured/Tenure Track | |||
| Academic, Associate, and Assistant Deans | 60 | 20 | 80 |
| Academic Department Heads | 71 | 49 | 120 |
| Professors | 766 | 146 | 912 |
| Associate Professors | 529 | 268 | 797 |
| Assistant Professors | 463 | 206 | 669 |
| Instructors | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| Subtotal | 1,890 | 698 | 2,588 |
| Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Lecturers, and Postdoctorals | |||
| Clinical/Professional | 93 | 25 | 118 |
| Research Faculty | 29 | 1 | 30 |
| Continuing Lecturers | 131 | 86 | 217 |
| Limited-Term Lecturers | 166 | 814 | 980 |
| Visiting Faculty | 115 | 69 | 184 |
| Faculty less than half-time | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Postdoctoral | 316 | 3 | 319 |
| Subtotal | 853 | 999 | 1,852 |
| Adjunct Faculty† | 295 | 105 | 400 |
| Staff | |||
| Administrative Staff | 1,057 | 254 | 1,311 |
| Management | 517 | 105 | 622 |
| Operations Assistants | 369 | 64 | 433 |
| Professional Staff | 298 | 19 | 317 |
| Professional Assistants | 1,238 | 208 | 1,446 |
| Technical Assistants | 238 | 16 | 254 |
| Extension Educators | 292 | 0 | 292 |
| Clerical Staff | 1,311 | 339 | 1,650 |
| Temp Clerical | 35 | 42 | 77 |
| Service Staff‡ | 2,025 | 266 | 2,291 |
| Temp Service | 455 | 103 | 558 |
| Subtotal | 7,835 | 1,416 | 9,251 |
| Graduate Student Staff | |||
| Graduate Assistants | 1,830 | 56 | 1,886 |
| Fellowship Admin. as Assistants | 114 | 0 | 114 |
| Graduate Lecturers | 27 | 0 | 27 |
| Graduate Research Assistants | 2,361 | 7 | 2,368 |
| Graduate Student Administratives | 269 | 18 | 287 |
| Graduate Aides | 0 | 193 | 193 |
| Subtotal | 4,601 | 274 | 4,875 |
| Grand Total | 15,474 | 3,568 | 18,966 |
† Adjunct faculty are not compensated by Purdue University.
‡ Includes temporary employees.