The College of Education is distinguished worldwide for its education of teachers and for research into human learning. As a founding member of the Holmes Partnership, the College has been a leader in educational reform at the national level. For decades, the College of Education has been ranked among the top ten in the United States. In 2000, U.S. News and World Report ranked the College of Education eighth in the nation in graduate programs. The Elementary Education program, housed in Integrated Teaching and Learning, was ranked second.
Students design their individual programs in consultation with their advisor and doctoral committee.
Throughout their program, students work with diverse faculty across the college and university. Thus, the ITL Ph.D. is a program that involves a community of learners, both faculty and students, whose varied concerns and interests continually advance both personal and professional knowledge regarding how to best educate all children. The Ph.D. in ITL prepares scholars who are broadly concerned with multi-disciplinary approaches to education and to teaching and learning for diverse populations of students. The program of study involves a major or core area of study with two supporting areas or cognates and courses in research methodology. The core coursework provides students with an exploration of the program s themes.