U.S. News and World Report has released its annual rankings of graduate schools, placing the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) No. 20 overall and No. 12 among all public professional schools of education. It ranked No. 6 among the schools of education of the 15 peer institutions in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC).

Areas within education that ranked in the top 10 of their specialty areas were special education (No. 8) and educational psychology (No. 10).

“We are pleased that our college continues to move up in the rankings and that the excellence in our graduate teaching, research and outreach is recognized,” said Dean Jean K. Quam. “We are particularly excited about the new pathways to teaching we are developing within the college that are meeting the needs of the diverse student body in our state and nation.”

U.S. News surveyed 376 schools granting education doctoral degrees. It calculates its rankings based on quality assessments from peer institutions and school superintendents nationwide; student selectivity; and faculty resources, which include student–faculty ratio and faculty awards; as well as support for research.

CEHD also includes developmental psychology, a program surveyed in another report, which was last ranked in 2013 (No. 1).