School of Education Once Again Ranked among Best
New U.S. News Rankings Revealed
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Indiana University School of Education is once again ranked as one of the best in the nation in U.S. News and World Report magazine's latest annual report, "America's Best Graduate Schools."
The IU School of Education is part of the top 20, ranked 19th. It also had four specialty programs in the top 10. Based on data from 241 programs that responded to the magazine, the school was ranked sixth in counseling and personnel services, eighth in secondary education, and ninth in higher education administration and elementary education.
"I'm delighted to see that for the 11th year in a row the School of Education has been ranked among the top 20 education programs in the country," said Gerardo Gonzalez, dean of the IU School of Education. "Despite the recent financial pressures, the externally funded research productivity of our faculty remains very strong. The quality of our academic programs also was rated as outstanding by scholars and school superintendents nationwide. These are the two major factors driving the education rankings."
- Here are some other facts and figures that represent the quality of the IU School of Education:
- Annually, the School of Education core campus (Bloomington and Indianapolis) produce about a third of the newly-licensed teachers in Indiana.
- A new study commissioned by the Indiana University School of Education evaluating the perceptions of Indiana principals about graduates found that most principals think highly of the teachers they’ve hired from IU. The study of 139 principals covered opinions on 139 graduates from the Bloomington campus between 2003 and 2006. Among their opinions:
- Principals think IUB graduates are stronger in selected teaching skills compared to graduates of other teacher preparation programs.
- Principals are more positive about IUB graduates’ performance compared to that of graduates of other teacher preparation programs.
- A majority of teachers were assigned to teach in the areas for which they were prepared at the IUB SOE.
- Since 1968, 18 winners of the Indiana Teacher of the Year award have been IU graduates
- Two of the three Indiana winners of National Teacher of the Year have been IU graduates
- Twenty-four of the 50 Milken Educator Award winners from Indiana are IU graduates, including Nicole Law, a teacher at Garden City Elementary School, who won the largest prize, $25,000, for what is called the “Oscars of Teaching”; also a 2008 winner, Chris Kates, BS ’00, a fifth-grade teacher at Avon Intermediate School East.
- Since the Lilly Endowment Distinguished Teacher Fellowship started in 2006, 10 of the 22 recipients of the $25,000 awards have been IU graduates
- Since 2000, 187 IU graduates from both IUB and IUPUI have received Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowships of $8,000 each
