2023 Best Education Master's Degree Schools
Finding the Best Education Master's Degree School for You
With 199,724 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, education is the #3 most popular major in the United States.
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To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Education Master's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 808 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.
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2023 Best Education Master’s Degree Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the best for education majors pursuing a master's degree.
Top 25 Top Schools for a Master's in Education
Our 2023 rankings named Claremont Graduate University the best school in the United States for education students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of Claremont, Claremont Graduate University is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Bank Street College of Education. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Education Master’s Degree Schools list. Bank Street College of Education is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best education schools in the United States. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.
Out of the 808 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Teachers College at Columbia University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the large city of New York, Teachers College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stanford University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Education Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the suburb of Stanford, Stanford is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
With a ranking of #6, Santa Clara University did quite well on this year’s best schools for education students working on their master’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Santa Clara, SCU is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.
Lebanon Valley College landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree education programs. LVC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Annville.
University of Washington - Tacoma Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for education students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. UW Tacoma is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Tacoma.
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University of Pennsylvania came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.
Fresno Pacific University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Education Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large city of Fresno, Fresno Pacific is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Concordia University, Irvine did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for education students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #11 on the list. Concordia University, Irvine is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Irvine.
With a ranking of #12, Brandman University did quite well on this year’s best schools for education students working on their master’s degree. Brandman is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Irvine.
Brown University landed the #13 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree education programs. Located in the medium-sized city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
Seattle University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for education students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #14 on the list. Located in the city of Seattle, Seattle U is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.
The College of New Jersey landed the #15 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree education programs. TCNJ is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Ewing.
Harvard University ranked #16 on this year’s Best Education Master’s Degree Schools list. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge.
University of California - Irvine did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for education students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #17 on the list. UC Irvine is a very large public school located in the city of Irvine.
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With a ranking of #18, Seattle Pacific University did quite well on this year’s best schools for education students working on their master’s degree. SPU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Seattle.
University of Puget Sound came in at #19 in this year’s edition of the Best Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Puget Sound is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Tacoma.
University of Redlands landed the #20 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree education programs. University of Redlands is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Redlands.
Wisconsin Lutheran College came in at #21 in this year’s edition of the Best Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. WLC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Milwaukee.
Drake University came in at #22 in this year’s edition of the Best Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Des Moines, Drake is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
University of Scranton ranked #23 on this year’s Best Education Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the small city of Scranton, University of Scranton is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
University of Washington - Seattle Campus ranked #24 on this year’s Best Education Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public school with a very large student population.
Stevenson University came in at #25 in this year’s edition of the Best Education Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Stevenson is a small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Stevenson.
Rest of the Top 50 Best Education Master's Degree Schools
Additional Award Winners
This list shows the remainder of the colleges awarded a Best Education Master's Degree Schools badge. Showing in this list means the school was ranked in the top 15% of the 808 different United States education schools we analyzed.
Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional great schools for Education students that almost earned our Best Education Master's Degree Schools award.
Education by Region
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Rankings in Majors Related to Education
Education Majors to Study
| Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Educational Administration | 45,458 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 34,451 |
| Special Education | 25,158 |
| General Education | 21,189 |
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 20,616 |
| Curriculum & Instruction | 19,784 |
| Student Counseling | 13,840 |
| Instructional Media Design | 8,387 |
| Teaching English or French | 4,743 |
| Other Education | 2,513 |
| Multilingual Education | 1,672 |
| Educational Assessment | 1,215 |
| Education Philosophy | 421 |
| International Education | 257 |
| Teaching Assistants | 20 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Education
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Psychology | 42,013 |
| Social Sciences | 22,292 |
| Communication & Journalism | 12,242 |
| Library Science | 5,929 |
| History | 4,391 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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