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Academic ranks in the United States are the titles, relative importance and power of professors, researchers, and administrative personnel held in academia.

Professorship

Main article: Professors in the United States

Common positions

For regular faculty (i.e., not counting administrative faculty positions such as chairships or deanships, nor positions considered "staff" rather than faculty), typical tenure-track positions include:

• Distinguished (or similar) professor (other such titles of special distinction vary by institution)
• Professor ("full professor", i.e., the destination of the "tenure track," upon exhausting all promotions other than those of special distinction)
• Associate professor (a mid-level, usually tenured, faculty member, which can lead to "full" professor)
• Assistant professor (typically entry-level for "tenure track" positions which can lead to associate professor)

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