List of academic ranks
Academic organizations typically have a rather rigid set of ranks.
United States
Within the United States the hierarchy of ranks is:
- Full Professor
- Associate Professor
- Assistant Professor
- [Various statuses (stati?) requiring a Ph.D. that are neither professorships nor post-doctoral fellowships, varying from one university to another. Among these are Lecturer and Instructor. At some universities, those titles are held by persons without doctorates; at some others, they are held only by persons with doctorates.]
- Post-doctoral fellow
- Graduate assistant including teaching assistants and research assistants.
There is a parallel system of administrative ranks
- President
- Dean
- Department head
United Kingdom
Academic ranks (old universities):
- Professor
- Reader
- Senior Lecturer
- Lecturer/Research Fellow
- Postgraduate Student/Research Assistant
- Undergraduate
Academic ranks (new universities):
- Professor
- Reader
- Principal Lecturer
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow
- Postgraduate Student/Research Assistant
- Undergraduate
Administrative ranks:
- Chancellor (honorific)
- Pro-Chancellor (honorific)
- Vice Chancellor
- Pro-Vice Chancellor
- Regestrar or Bursar
- Dean of Faculty
- Head of Department/School