{"id":110384,"date":"2016-03-16T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=110384"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:32:15","slug":"neag-schools-u-s-news-world-report-rankings-rise-third-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/03\/neag-schools-u-s-news-world-report-rankings-rise-third-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. News &amp; World Report: Neag School Ranks Among Nation\u2019s Top 20 Public Graduate Schools of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>\u00a0released its annual national rankings of graduate schools of education on March 16, 2016, with the\u00a0Neag School of Education ranking No. 26 in the nation, up five slots this year from No. 31. Among public graduate schools of education, the Neag School ranks at No. 16, up from No. 21. University of Maryland, College Park, also a public institution, is tied with the Neag School. This is the second\u00a0consecutive year in which the Neag School saw a rise in its\u00a0<em>U.S. News<\/em>\u00a0rankings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1001\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spotlight.education.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/story-ncate-full.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1001\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1001 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/spotlight.education.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/story-ncate-full-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gentry Building\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 202px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 202\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Neag School of Education is ranked among the top 20 public graduate schools of education in the nation, according to the 2017\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>\u00a0rankings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, the 2017\u00a0<em>U.S. News<\/em>\u00a0rankings ranks four\u00a0of the Neag School\u2019s specialty programs among the top 20 in the nation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Special Education, No. 12<\/li>\n<li>Educational Psychology, No. 14<\/li>\n<li>Secondary Teacher Education, No. 14 (tie)<\/li>\n<li>Educational Administration and Supervision, No. 18 (tie)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The methodology used for the\u00a0<em>U.S. News\u00a0<\/em>rankings of specialty programs differs from overall rankings, in that the former are based solely on nominations by education deans and education school deans of graduate studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report Best Graduate School<\/em>\u00a0rankings among several of the ratings systems in effect today, it is a pleasure to have our strengths as a leading school of education recognized in this way,\u201d says Dean Richard L. Schwab. \u201cWe continue to have immense pride in our Neag School faculty scholars and our exceptional student body. It is their talent and ongoing hard work from year to year that helps to earn the Neag School this level of distinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graduate education programs at 376 schools granting education doctoral degrees were surveyed in the fall of 2015; 255 schools provided the data needed to calculate rankings based on 10 specific measures, including student selectivity and research activity. Complete information regarding\u00a0<em>U.S. News<\/em>\u00a0rankings methodologies for 2017 can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-graduate-schools\/articles\/education-schools-methodology\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find\u00a0a complete list of the 2017\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>\u00a0<em>Best Education Schools<\/em>\u00a0rankings\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-education-schools?int=a4d609\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report released its annual national rankings of graduate schools of education on March 16, 2016, with the Neag School now ranking No. 16 among public graduate schools of education in the nation. <\/p>\n<p>Four of the Neag School\u2019s specialty programs also placed among the top 20 in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1878],"class_list":["post-110384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neag"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:56:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/108015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110384"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=110384"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=110384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}