USF College of Education Named ‘One of America’s Best Graduate Schools’

The University of South Florida College of Education has cause to celebrate.

For the past decade, it has annually received U.S. News & World Report’s title of one of the nation’s top graduate schools. The rankings were released Thursday, March 14.

“U.S. News & World Report has named the College to the 2014 list of America’s Best Graduate Schools for the 10th consecutive year, with a ranking of 81st overall,” according to a USF press release. “The College is ranked 52nd in funded research.”

The College tied with Ball State University, Brigham Young, University, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, the University of Alabama, the University of California-Santa Cruz, and the University of Colorado-Denver.

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According to U.S. News & World Report, the publication ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law, and medicine each year. The rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinions about the program; and statistics on the quality of the school’s faculty, research and students.

Experts include administrators at more than 1,250 programs and more than 13,000 academics and professionals.

The quality measures include:

• peer assessment scores;
• superintendent assessment scores;
• 2012 mean Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores of doctoral students;
• 2012 doctoral acceptance rates;
• 2012 doctoral student/faculty ratios;
• doctoral degrees granted per faculty in 2011-2012;
• 2012 funded research dollars;
• 2012 funded research per full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty member; and
• total graduate education enrollment in 2012.

“We are pleased to be ranked among the best in the country,” said Harold Keller, dean of the USF College of Education, in the USF release. “Our faculty, staff, and students are what make the high quality of our graduate programs nationally recognized.”

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