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Peer Institutions

CU-Boulder considers the AAU (American Association of Universities) public institutions as its peer group for comparisons of faculty salaries, instruction, and many other activities.

Comparisons on tuition, funding, and more

Map of all AAU institutions:

We usually exclude Toronto and McGill (in Canada) from the list of public AAUs; we sometimes exclude Rutgers, which has unionized faculty. This results in the following list:

Public AAU's, United States only, N = 34

University of Arizona
University of California - Berkeley
University of California - Davis
University of California - Irvine
University of California - Los Angeles
University of California - San Diego
University of California - Santa Barbara
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Florida
University of Illinois - Urbana
Indiana University
Iowa State University
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Maryland - College Park
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Michigan State University
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
University of Missouri - Columbia
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
State University of New York - Buffalo
State University of New York - Stony Brook
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Ohio State University
University of Oregon
Pennsylvania State University
University of Pittsburgh
Purdue University
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (sometimes excluded)
University of Texas - Austin
Texas A&M University
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin - Madison

The AAU is a group of over 60 Research I universities; membership is by invitation only. Visit the AAU website for more information on the AAU, a list of all institutions (including privates) with their membership date, and a link to their homepage.

All public AAU's belong to the "AAU Data Exchange" (AAUDE), a group not officially part of the AAU. AAUDE members, which include some privates, exchange data on a number of topics. See our faculty-salary comparisons for an example of one way in which we've used these comparative data.

The AAUDE also sponsors an electronic-based mechanism for exchanging ad hoc queries.

CCHE peer institutions for CU-Boulder

Last revision 09/04/07