{"id":20146,"date":"2022-03-29T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education.ufl.edu\/news\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:00:47","slug":"uf-college-of-education-demonstrates-consistent-leadership-in-u-s-news-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education.ufl.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/uf-college-of-education-demonstrates-consistent-leadership-in-u-s-news-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"UF College of Education Demonstrates Consistent Leadership in U.S. News Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.8em;\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The College of Education at the University of Florida continues to demonstrate leadership among the nation\u2019s top graduate colleges of education\u2014ranking No. 14 among public education colleges, according to the latest U.S. News &amp; World Report annual survey of America\u2019s Best Graduate Education Schools, released Tuesday (March 29, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UF remains the top-ranked education college in the state and advanced one spot to No. 23 among all, public and private, U.S. colleges of education. These overall graduate rankings follow just two months after U.S. News named the college No. 2 among America\u2019s Best Online Graduate Education Programs. UF has remained in the top two for the past seven years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The college has also maintained a reputation for excellence among peers, earning specialty area rankings in:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special Education: 5<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Counseling: 6<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curriculum and Instruction: 16<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elementary Teacher Education: 22<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 18px;\">\u201cIt is a great source of pride, for EduGators everywhere, to consistently maintain high rankings given the strength of our competition,\u201d said College of Education Dean Glenn Good. \u201cOur growth in key, mission-focused areas, including research funding and enrollments, provides strong evidence that our college is making a positive impact on the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 18px;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve positioned ourselves to create the future of teaching and learning through growth of domain expertise among our faculty, enhancement of our facilities and expansion of our research and curriculum,\u201d said Tom Dana, senior associate dean and director of the Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies. \u201cThe continued peer recognition is shared by our faculty, staff, alumni and friends around the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To establish the rankings, U.S. News &amp; World Report surveyed 457 schools\u2014with 274 providing the necessary data to be included. Standings were determined based on 11 weighted quality measures under four key categories: quality assessment (40 percent), research activity (30 percent), student selectivity (18 percent) and faculty resources (12 percent).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evidence of growing momentum at the college contributing to its consistently high rankings include a 12.4 percent growth in graduate enrollment and 4 percent increase in funded research. Other, unmeasured indicators include projects that will serve to transform education and strengthen society such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/ialt.education.ufl.edu\/\">Institute for Advanced Learning Technologies<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldsreading.com\/\">New Worlds Reading Initiative<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAchieving excellence year after year is a collective effort,\u201d Good said. \u201cThe growing momentum generated by our faculty, students, staff and alumni is driving us forward, as we blaze new trails into the future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Education at the University of Florida ranks No. 14 among public education colleges, according to the latest U.S. News &amp; World Report annual survey of America\u2019s Best Graduate Education Schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1518,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-featured-news","category-press-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v22.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UF College of Education Demonstrates Consistent Leadership in U.S. News Rankings - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/education.ufl.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/uf-college-of-education-demonstrates-consistent-leadership-in-u-s-news-rankings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UF College of Education Demonstrates Consistent Leadership in U.S. News Rankings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The College of Education at the University of Florida ranks No. 14 among public education colleges, according to the latest U.S. News &amp; 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