U.S.News & World Report rankings 2009

topics: Assessment

Press release

U.S.News & World Report today released its annual ranking of graduate schools, and Peabody is ranked No. 2 among graduate schools of education.

Overall ranking for graduate schools of education

Stanford University - 1
Vanderbilt (Peabody) - 2
University of California-Los Angeles - 3
Teachers College, Columbia University - 4
University of Oregon - 5

Many of Peabody's programs were ranked in the top ten:

Program	Rank
Education Administration	1
Special Education	2
Education Policy	4
Elementary Education	5
Higher Education Administration	8
Educational Psychology	9
Curriculum/Instruction	10
Secondary Education	10

"We are gratified by the rankings," said Dean Benbow, "and they reflect the outstanding efforts of our faculty and students who work hard to address the thorniest problems in education. We have an obligation to contribute as much as we can to helping all learners be successful, and the new rankings suggest that we are meeting that obligation."