Academic Analysis
Kennesaw State

Department & college salaries

Median compensation of instructors who taught in each unit, by fiscal year. Attribution is by teaching activity, so this reflects teaching-faculty pay, not a unit’s full payroll.

Median salary by college
UnitFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020FY2019FY2018FY2017FY2016FY2015
Coles College of Business$124,915$120,174$109,777$107,283$106,084$118,150$121,350$119,549$115,517$110,606$101,414
Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering$110,074$102,278$98,263$97,908$89,325$88,568$88,958$80,216$79,835$76,214$74,071
College of Computing & Software Engineering$107,639$99,580$92,276$91,010$83,411$84,727$84,024$75,997$65,750$70,880$58,150
Wellstar College of Health & Human Services$99,561$97,331$92,399$91,000$88,951$86,880$80,896$86,222$84,458$73,360$56,486
College of Science & Mathematics$78,561$76,696$71,499$70,350$64,217$62,608$58,775$59,975$52,182$54,740$52,224
College of the Arts$40,500$34,540$35,355$29,494$28,632$24,975$24,306$22,762$39,020$24,625$23,419
Bagwell College of Education$25,775$36,506$66,077$36,025$57,042$55,384$44,366$18,681$12,825$16,634$13,277
$3.9K$29.9K$55.9K$81.9K$107.9K$133.9KFY2015FY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Coles College of BusinessSouthern Polytechnic College of EngineeringCollege of Computing & Software EngineeringWellstar College of Health & Human ServicesCollege of Science & MathematicsCollege of the ArtsBagwell College of Education