The association also sanctions institutions for infringements of shared governance. Those faculty members account for about 85 percent of all full-time college professors. Figures do not include medical-school faculty members. The average for all faculty members includes the categories of instructors, lecturers, and faculty members without ranks. Those categories are not shown separately.
Foreign students are nonresident aliens studying in the United States on a temporary basis.
Figures cover only those students who are U.S. citizens. Figures cover only freshmen who had graduated from high school in the previous year. The ACT is scored on a scale from 1 to 36. The College Board's SAT is scored on a scale from 400 to 1600. For each state, one score is given, depending on which test was taken by the larger number of students.