Best Education Schools
Ranked in 2015 | Best Education Schools Rankings Methodology
A teacher must first be a student, and graduate education program rankings can help you find the right classroom. With the U.S. News rankings of the top education schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size and test scores.
| Rank | School name | Tuition | Total enrollment |
Average GRE verbal score, entering doctoral students
|
Average GRE quantitative score, entering doctoral students
|
Doctoral programs acceptance rate
|
Average amount of externally funded research expenditure per faculty member (in thousands)
|
Peer assessment score (out of 5)
|
Student-faculty ratio
|
Educational professionals assessment score (out of 5)
|
Total amount of externally funded research conducted by the school (in millions)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
#1
Overall Score: Overall Score: 100 out of 100.
|
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD |
$1,000 per credit (full-time) | 1,869 | ||||||||
|
#2
Overall Score: Overall Score: 95 out of 100.
|
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
$41,616 per year (full-time) | 876 | ||||||||
|
#3Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 94 out of 100.
|
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
$44,184 per year (full-time) | 379 | ||||||||
|
#3Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 94 out of 100.
|
Vanderbilt University (Peabody)
Nashville, TN |
$1,782 per credit (full-time) | 934 | ||||||||
|
#5
Overall Score: Overall Score: 93 out of 100.
|
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Madison, WI |
$11,864 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,191 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,011 | ||||||||
|
#6
Overall Score: Overall Score: 89 out of 100.
|
University of Washington
Seattle, WA |
$15,015 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,840 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 917 | ||||||||
|
#7Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 86 out of 100.
|
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL |
$46,836 per year (full-time) | 294 | ||||||||
|
#7Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 86 out of 100.
|
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY |
$1,398 per credit (full-time) | 4,911 | ||||||||
|
#7Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 86 out of 100.
|
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA |
$45,568 per year (full-time) | 1,046 | ||||||||
|
#10
Overall Score: Overall Score: 84 out of 100.
|
University of Texas—Austin
Austin, TX |
$8,402 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,338 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,124 | ||||||||
|
#11
Overall Score: Overall Score: 80 out of 100.
|
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI |
$20,470 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,384 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 630 | ||||||||
|
#12
Overall Score: Overall Score: 79 out of 100.
|
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR |
$16,032 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,752 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 516 | ||||||||
|
#13Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 77 out of 100.
|
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI |
$679 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,302 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,970 | ||||||||
|
#13Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 77 out of 100.
|
University of California—Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 747 | ||||||||
|
#15Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 76 out of 100.
|
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH |
$11,560 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,104 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,018 | ||||||||
|
#15Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 76 out of 100.
|
University of Southern California (Rossier)
Los Angeles, CA |
$1,602 per credit (full-time) | 1,748 | ||||||||
|
#17Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 75 out of 100.
|
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ |
$10,610 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,044 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,428 | ||||||||
|
#17Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 75 out of 100.
|
University of California—Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 355 | ||||||||
|
#17Tie
Overall Score: Overall Score: 75 out of 100.
|
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS |
$363 per credit (in-state, full-time); $849 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 989 | ||||||||
|
#20
Overall Score: Overall Score: 74 out of 100.
|
New York University (Steinhardt)
New York, NY |
$35,496 per year (full-time) | 3,049 | ||||||||
|
#21
Overall Score: Overall Score: 72 out of 100.
|
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN |
$15,458 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,749 | ||||||||
|
#22
Overall Score: Overall Score: 70 out of 100.
|
University of Virginia (Curry)
Charlottesville, VA |
$14,244 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,568 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 918 | ||||||||
|
#23
Overall Score: Overall Score: 69 out of 100.
|
Boston College (Lynch)
Chestnut Hill, MA |
$1,260 per credit (full-time) | 689 | ||||||||
|
#24
Overall Score: Overall Score: 67 out of 100.
|
University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL |
$11,824 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,546 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 777 | ||||||||
|
#25
Overall Score: Overall Score: 66 out of 100.
|
Indiana University—Bloomington
Bloomington, IN |
$413 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,202 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 934 | ||||||||

