Student success stems from teacher capability. The educators who oversee today’s classrooms directly determine how much their students learn. U.S. News & World Report recently released its top education graduate programs in the country. Of 356 schools surveyed with doctoral programs, 245 provided the right data to be calculated in the rankings. The list was determined based on 10 criteria, including GRE scores, acceptance rates, student-to-faculty ratios, research expenditures and other factors.
In reading through the rankings, a few things stood out. The first is that there are a lot of public colleges and universities represented, proving that you do not always have to pay an Ivy-league fee to become an effective educator at the graduate degree level. I also noticed that many of the “top” schools were located in the Midwest (think Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas), which signals that it is not just the stereotypical areas of “elite” thinking that are churning out progressive and effective educators.
Take a look at some of the key rankings and let me know what you think:
Top 10 overall:
1. Johns Hopkins University
2. Vanderbilt University
3. Harvard University
