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As a student here, you’ll have access to all of the resources and academic programming associated with a Big Ten research institution but you will spend most of your time working alongside faculty scholars within the small, personal environment of our College. We have a remarkable 10:1 student to faculty ratio. This is low compared to many peer institutions; some of which average 30 or 40 students to one faculty member. As one student noted, “That is on par with (small liberal arts colleges) such as Bowdoin, Amherst and Williams.”

The College enrolls about 500 undergraduate students in programs that prepare them for licensure for special education, elementary education, and eight secondary education areas. We also have more than 640 graduate students. In its 2014 report on the nation’s best graduate programs, U.S. News & World Report ranked the College 32nd best among 1,200 schools granting doctoral degrees.

Doctoral

As a Big Ten research institution, the College offers doctoral programs that consistently rank in the nation’s top 20. Our programs include Educational Leadership, Higher Education and Student Affairs, Schools, Culture and Society, Counseling Psychology, Educational Measurement and Statistics, Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Counselor Education and Supervision, Couple and Family Therapy, Rehabilitation Counselor Education, Art Education, Foreign Language and ESL, Language, Literature and Culture, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Special Education.

Master's

Our College offers top-ranked Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Master of Arts in Teaching programs. You can earn degrees, licensures, and endorsements in areas ranging from teacher education to rehabilitation counseling, school counseling, school psychology, education psychology, educational measurement, educational leadership, and more. We offer a number of master’s level courses online and the entire Educational Leadership program is online as well.

Undergraduate

Our teacher education program gives students a broad understanding of the field but also allows them to dive deeply into a specific subject area. We are one of the only teacher education programs in the state that allows undergraduates to earn a degree in a specific academic subject. That means undergraduates can pursue licensure and endorsement preparation programs in Art, Elementary Education, English, Foreign Language, Mathematics. Music, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, and Library as well additional endorsements in athletic coaching, hearing impairment, middle school, talented and gifted and more.

Online Learning

When it comes to technology The University of Iowa College of Education is a pace setter and cutting edge innovator. Examples include inventing the first optical scanner to score tests in 1952 to pioneering the use of ePortfolios in K12 and higher education to recent efforts in Assistive Technologies for learners with disabilities. The College of Education has also positioned itself well in the exciting and growing area of online education. Online education allows people to take classes on the internet who may otherwise not have access to higher education.

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