Best Education Schools
Ranked in 2013 | Best Education Schools Rankings Methodology
A teacher must first be a student, and education program rankings can help you find the right classroom. With U.S. News's 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
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Average GRE quantitative score, entering doctoral students
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Doctoral programs acceptance rate
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Average amount of externally funded research expenditure per faculty member (in thousands)
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Peer assessment score (out of 5)
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Student-faculty ratio
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Superintendent assessment score (out of 5)
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Total amount of externally funded research conducted by the school (in millions)
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| #26 |
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN |
$14,570 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,320 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,880 | ||||||||
| #27 |
University of Maryland–College Park
College Park, MD |
$551 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,188 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 986 | ||||||||
| #28 |
Pennsylvania State University–University Park
University Park, PA |
$17,670 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,374 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,138 | ||||||||
| #28 |
University of Colorado–Boulder
Boulder, CO |
$9,738 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,208 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 354 | ||||||||
| #28 |
University of Connecticut (Neag)
Storrs, CT |
$10,782 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,990 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 796 | ||||||||
| #28 |
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA |
$9,530 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,594 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,075 | ||||||||
| #32 |
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA |
$6,779 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,608 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 398 | ||||||||
| #32 |
Purdue University–West Lafayette
West Lafayette, IN |
$9,208 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,010 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 523 | ||||||||
| #32 |
University of Illinois–Chicago
Chicago, IL |
$10,882 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,880 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 691 | ||||||||
| #32 |
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA |
$9,310 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,562 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 693 | ||||||||
| #32 |
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA |
$19,336 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,658 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,047 | ||||||||
| #37 |
University of California–Irvine
Irvine, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 229 | ||||||||
| #37 |
University of Delaware
Newark, DE |
$27,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,240 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 363 | ||||||||
| #37 |
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC |
$8,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,924 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 522 | ||||||||
| #40 |
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY |
$1,249 per credit (full-time) | 678 | ||||||||
| #40 |
University of California–Santa Barbara (Gevirtz)
Santa Barbara, CA |
$12,957 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,059 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 344 | ||||||||
| #40 |
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL |
$449 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,249 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,268 | ||||||||
| #43 |
University of Georgia
Athens, GA |
$7,400 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,400 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,857 | ||||||||
| #44 |
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL |
$404 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,035 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,069 | ||||||||
| #44 |
George Washington University
Washington, DC |
$1,310 per credit (full-time) | 1,699 | ||||||||
| #46 |
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL |
$1,660 per credit (full-time) | 310 | ||||||||
| #47 |
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ |
$15,024 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,600 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,008 | ||||||||
| #47 |
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA |
$687 per credit (in-state, full-time); $961 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,153 | ||||||||
| #47 |
Texas A&M University–College Station
College Station, TX |
$227 per credit (in-state, full-time); $778 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,289 | ||||||||
| #47 |
University at Albany–SUNY
Albany, NY |
$9,370 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,680 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,001 | ||||||||
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