The purpose of this needs-assessment was to determine the mentoring competency of faculty at a college of agriculture in a research one land grant institution in the southeast United States. The Mentoring Competency Assessment (MCA) was completed by 171 faculty and 308 students. Chi-square tests of independence were conducted to determine what differences in distribution of responses exist between students and faculty by gender and self-selected area of research. Results showed significant statistical differences in distribution of low-skill evaluations of faculty mentoring competency between students and faculty, by gender, and by self-selected area of research. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of cross-sectional web-based questionnaires on the collection of mentoring data to inform practice for university administrators.