PROFILE

The department employs ten full-time faculty and nine full-time staff.

The department offers:
Bachelor's degree programs
Master's degree programs
Non-degree post-baccalaureate program
Doctoral program

In the 2003-2004 academic year, our students included:
55 undergraduate majors: 37 in teacher education, 18 in Educational Studies
32 master's students: 11 M.A.T. students, 5 M.A.Ed. Elementary, 16 M.A.Ed.
11 doctoral students

Degrees granted in the 2003 calendar year:
17 B.A. degrees
15 M.A. degrees

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report (2003) ranked Washington University's undergraduate programs 9th in the nation, putting it in the top ten colleges in the United States.

In 2003, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ranked Washington University 7th nationally in black enrollment, 4th in its success integrating African-American undergraduates, and 1st place in its five-year progress in black faculty appointments.

The Department of Education at Washington University was the only department in the top 40 of the America’s Best Graduate Schools 2006 survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report. All others were autonomous schools of education, separate from their university's College of Arts & Sciences. Our Department also had the lowest teacher-student ratio of the top 40 graduate programs in education.

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