A professor is a senior academic who has many years of teaching experience.
Lecturer is the tile of a teacher who has just started to teach at college and university level in undergraduate courses..Professor is the highest rank in the career of an academic that is a person who chooses teaching as his profession
• On the other hand, lecturer is a person who gives lectures to students in colleges and universities with or without academic qualifications
• All teachers’ starts as lecturers and some grow to become professors while some become senior lecturers only
• Professors have wide ranging duties and responsibilities and have to teach as well as continue advanced research in their chosen field of study. They also perform many administrative tasks.
• Professors earn more salaries than lecturers and they are also more experienced
• Professor is a permanent position in academics while lecturers do not have tenure