Best Education Schools

Ranked in 2016 | 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.

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Rank	School name	Tuition	Total enrollment	Change Column             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)                            Average GRE verbal score, entering doctoral students	Change Column             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)                            Average GRE quantitative score, entering doctoral students
#1	Stanford University  Stanford, CA	$45,729 per year (full-time)	373	Locked	Locked
#2Tie	Harvard University  Cambridge, MA	$43,280 per year (full-time)	891	Locked	Locked
#2Tie	Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore, MD	$1,000 per credit (full-time)	2,161	Locked	Locked
#4	University of Wisconsin—​Madison  Madison, WI	$11,870 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,197per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,030	Locked	Locked
#5	Vanderbilt University (Peabody)  Nashville, TN	$1,818 per credit (full-time)	908	Locked	Locked
#6	University of Pennsylvania  Philadelphia, PA	$47,364 per year (full-time)	1,140	Locked	Locked
#7	Teachers College, Columbia University  New York, NY	$1,454 per credit (full-time)	4,920	Locked	Locked
#8Tie	Northwestern University  Evanston, IL	$48,624 per year (full-time)	318	Locked	Locked
#8Tie	University of Washington  Seattle, WA	$16,536 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,742per year (out-of-state, full-time)	938	Locked	Locked
#10	University of Texas—​Austin  Austin, TX	$8,402 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,338 per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,025	Locked	Locked
#11	University of California—​Los Angeles  Los Angeles, CA	$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322per year (out-of-state, full-time)	686	Locked	Locked
#12Tie	University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor  Ann Arbor, MI	$21,040 per year (in-state, full-time); $42,530per year (out-of-state, full-time)	524	Locked	Locked
#12Tie	University of Oregon  Eugene, OR	$16,032 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,752per year (out-of-state, full-time)	592	Locked	Locked
#14	Arizona State University  Phoenix, AZ	$10,610 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,086per year (out-of-state, full-time)	2,627	Locked	Locked
#15Tie	Michigan State University  East Lansing, MI	$705 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,353 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	1,862	Locked	Locked
#15Tie	New York University (Steinhardt)  New York, NY	$36,912 per year (full-time)	3,117	Locked	Locked
#15Tie	University of Kansas  Lawrence, KS	$378 per credit (in-state, full-time); $881 per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	1,209	Locked	Locked
#18Tie	Ohio State University  Columbus, OH	$11,560 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,032per year (out-of-state, full-time)	989	Locked	Locked
#18Tie	University of California—​Berkeley  Berkeley, CA	$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322per credit (out-of-state, full-time)	343	Locked	Locked
#20	University of Minnesota—​Twin Cities  Minneapolis, MN	$15,844 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,508per year (out-of-state, full-time)	1,861	Locked	Locked
#21Tie	University of Southern California (Rossier)  Los Angeles, CA	$1,666 per credit (full-time)	1,866	Locked	Locked
#21Tie	University of Virginia (Curry)  Charlottesville, VA	$14,856 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,288per year (out-of-state, full-time)	937	Locked	Locked
#23Tie	Boston College (Lynch)  Chestnut Hill, MA	$1,310 per credit (full-time)	793	Locked	Locked
#23Tie	University of Illinois—​Urbana-​Champaign  Champaign, IL	$12,060 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,058per year (out-of-state, full-time)	792	Locked	Locked
#25	University of California—​Irvine  Irvine, CA	$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322per year (out-of-state, full-time)	274	Locked	Locked