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Best Graduate Schools

Education Program Rankings Methodology

How we rank graduate education programs

Posted April 16, 2009

Reader Comments

Getting on the Evaluation List?

I am on the faculty at San Francisco State University in the College of Education. How does our college get on a list to be considered for possible ranking?

I read through your criteria to rank colleges of education and the criteria seems to only relate to doctoral students. How do you factor in undergraduates and masters students?

useless

Cannot use this as a source for helping my recent grads choose a new school. Not helpful at all.

SUPER INTENDENTS?

The superindents of school districts opinions of Graduate programs carry 15% of the weight in these rankings? What the hell does that have to do with graduate schools? By US News' own admission less than 1/4 of them even responded. That's like asking 4th grade teachers to to rank the top undergraduate programs in Biology. Superintendents' opinions carry 15% but combined GRE scores carry 12%. Well done USSnooze. That's what happens when you monopolize a product. Garbage in....Garbage out. PLEASE Bring back Barrons.

Someone else please get in this one horse race!

reliability

There are no statistics on the result of going through the programs. Isn't that the most important part of the school? It should produce fabulous students that prosper. How is that reflected in this data?

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