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Best Colleges for Education
Top education and teacher training programs ranked by what their education graduates earn, plus completion rates, debt and actual cost. Federal data. No paid rankings.
How We Rank Education Schools
These rankings use what education bachelor's graduates earn, not the school-wide average. College Scorecard publishes earnings three years after graduation for each field of study. A school is ranked when it has a published figure for general education, special education, and teacher education by level and by subject and at least 25 graduates behind it. Where a school has more than one of these programs, the largest is used and the table names it under the figure. Each school is then scored on our 5-component composite using federal data: education graduate earnings (28%), graduation rate (25%), social mobility via Pell Grant share (20%), debt burden (15%), and net cost for low-income students (12%). Where a school has not reported one of these, that component is dropped and the remaining weights are rescaled rather than filled in with an estimate. A school with no net price on file for families earning up to $30,000 is scored on its overall average net price instead. Only 4-year non-profit schools with sufficient data qualify.
- →Earnings: Median annual earnings of education bachelor's graduates three years after they graduate. Source: College Scorecard.
- →Graduation rate: Full-time first-time students completing within 150% of normal time. Source: IPEDS.
- →Net price: Average annual cost after all grants and scholarships. Source: IPEDS.
- →Social mobility: Share of students receiving Pell Grants, a direct measure of access for low-income students. Source: IPEDS.
- →Debt burden: Median federal loan debt at graduation. Source: College Scorecard.
Top 10 Education Schools (2026)
Ranked by composite: education graduate earnings, graduation rate, social mobility, debt, affordability.
| # | School | Earnings (3yr)education grads |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boricua College New York, NY | $40,039Teacher education by level |
| 2 | CUNY Hunter College New York, NY | $55,597Teacher education by subject |
| 3 | CUNY City College New York, NY | $45,183Teacher education by level |
| 4 | California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA | $50,100Teacher education by subject |
| 5 | Heritage University Toppenish, WA | $49,886Teacher education by level |
| 6 | University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD | $49,928Teacher education by level |
| 7 | College of Staten Island CUNY Staten Island, NY | $56,689Teacher education by level |
| 8 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | $42,964Teacher education by subject |
| 9 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA | $50,515Teacher education by level |
| 10 | CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY | $41,079Teacher education by level |
460 of 1,408 schools with Education programs have published education graduate earnings and are ranked. Top 10 shown. Earnings are the median for education bachelor's graduates three years after graduation, and Grads is how many graduates that figure covers. Data: IPEDS + College Scorecard. Updated annually.
All 1,408 Colleges in the Dataset
The ranking above shows the top 10 by composite score. Every school in the full dataset is listed here so you can explore beyond the top results.
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