College of Education Graduate School Programs Top National Rankings
8 Graduate Programs in the Top 10
MSU’s College of Education has done it again. For the 12th year in a row the college’s graduate programs in elementary and secondary education have been ranked number 1 in the 2007 U.S. News & World Report guide to “ America’s Best Graduate Schools”. The Rehabilitation Counseling program retained its number 1 ranking from 2003. The College of Education had a total of 8 graduate programs ranked in the top 10 nationally and an overall rank of 14th in the nation.
The magazine ranks the nations 276 graduate education schools that grant doctorates or Ed.S. degrees. The rankings are based on six attributes:
- reputation
- faculty resources
- research activity
- student selectivity
- overall rank
- speciality rankings
Rankings from the US News & World Report
| Elementary Education | Secondary Education | Rehabilitation Counseling* |
| 1. Michigan State University 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison 3. University of Georgia 4. Ohio State University 5. Teachers College-Columbia 6. Vanderbilt University 7. Indiana University |
1. Michigan State University 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison 3. Stanford University (CA) 4. Ohio State University 5. University of Georgia 6. Teachers College-Columbia 7. University of Virginia (Curry) |
1. Michigan State University 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison 3. Southern Illinois University 3. University of Iowa 5. Boston University 5. George Washington University 5. Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Michigan State University 3. Teachers College-Columbia 4. University of Illinois-Urbana 5. Stanford University 6. Ohio State University |
1. University of Michigan 2. Pennsylvania State University 3. University of California-Los Angeles 4. Michigan State University 5. University of Southern California (Rossier) |
1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Stanford University 3. University of Michigan 4. University of Illinois-Urbana 5. Michigan State University 6. University of Maryland-College Park |
| Education Policy | Administration/Supervision | |
| 1. Harvard University 2. Stanford University 3. University of Wisconsin-Madison 4. Teachers College-Columbia 5. University of Michigan 6. Vanderbilt University 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. University of California-Berkeley 9. Michigan State University 10. Pennsylvania State University-University Park 10. University of California-Los Angeles |
1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 2. Vanderbilt University 3. Harvard University 4. Stanford University 5. Pennsylvania State University 6. Ohio State University 7. University of Texas-Austin 8. Teachers College-Columbia 9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 10. Michigan State University |
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| * Retained from 2003 rankings |
–Carrie Albin, Outreach Coordinator and Co-Editor