UB Graduate School of Education Rated In Top 10 In Northeast By U.S. News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education has been ranked in the top 10 graduate schools of education in the Northeast by U.S. News & World Report.

Nationwide, the school ranked 39th nationally among 223 schools that grant Ph.D. or Ed.D. degrees in the magazine's first ranking of graduate schools of education.

"All of us in the Graduate School of Education are delighted to be ranked among the top graduate schools of education in the country," said Hugh Petrie, dean of the UB school. "It's a real tribute to our faculty, students and alumni. In these difficult budgetary times, it is good to receive such an external validation of the high quality of our programs."

U.S. News has published "America's best Graduates Schools" for six consecutive years, but this is the first year the guide ranked education schools. The rankings were determined by using five categories: faculty resources, research activity, student selectivity and two separate measures of reputation.

The UB Graduate School of Education serves 1,200 graduate students in three departments: Learning and Instruction; Educational Organization, Administration and Policy, and Counseling and Educational Psychology.

It houses the Buffalo Research Institute on Education for Teaching, the Early Childhood Research Center, the Western New York Educational Service Council, the Center for Educational Resources and Technology, the Center for Comparative and International Education, and the Intensive English Language Institute. It sponsors programs in reading diagnosis and remediation, for gifted math students and for the assessment of educational computer software, among others.