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- Hi there, I'm Sam Clark with Crimson Education,
and today we're talking about
the top education schools in the world.
These are the schools that prepare the best teachers,
education policy makers, and more, to go out there
and change the world through education.
So, let's get right to it.
First, disclaimer before I get started.
These rankings are based on the QS rankings
which take into consideration such things
as employer reputation, the h-index,
citations per faculty member, and more.
This by no means means that this is the definitive ranking
of best education schools in the world,
but it's a pretty good one.
And, if you want to learn more about the education school
that's best for you, if you're interested in going
into teaching and education policy making,
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Number six on our list
is the University of Hong Kong, located in Hong Kong.
The faculty of education at the University of Hong Kong
is very dedicated to work in theory, pedagogy and practice,
but also is really dedicated to carrying out
the university's stated mission
of acting as an educational nexus
between China, Asia and the rest of the world.
Research at the University of Hong Kong School of Education
is organized via divisions
and via six research centers and two consortia.
The University of Hong Kong
also has a major education policy unit
for those focused on developing education policy,
as well as a laboratory of neuroscience for education,
which is an interdisciplinary unit
that cuts boundaries across education, neuroscience,
and finds how those two disciplines can work together.
Number five on our list is the University of Cambridge,
which offers both undergraduate
and graduate degrees in education.
If you're pursuing an education degree
at the undergraduate level at the University of Cambridge,
you can enter three tracks,
all of which are interdisciplinary.
Those three tracks include: One, the Education,
and Psychology and Learning track,
which focuses on education from a psychological perspective;
two, the Education, Policy
and International Development track,
which focuses a lot on the history of education policy
and how we can use education to initiate social change;
and, three, the Education, English,
Drama and the Arts track,
which connects the study of English literature
with a lot of key debates in education policy making,
such as the role of creativity and the role of culture
in developing curriculum for students.
The University of Cambridge also, as mentioned before,
has a master's program which includes a full-time course,
which is 10 months, as well as a master's of philosophy
in education, which will be more of a part-time course,
two years for folks who are both teaching
and learning at the same time.
Number four keeps us in the UK at the University of Oxford.
At Oxford you can both get a master's degree
and a doctoral degree in education.
The master's degree is a one-year, full-time course
which gives you a grounding in educational research methods,
as well as a more theoretical
and methodological understanding of the field of education
as it exists today and how research is conducted within it.
In addition to that, you would choose a specialist pathway,
which allows you to choose where in the field of education
you want to go after you get that initial basis.
The master's degrees at Oxford
can both be full-time and part-time,
and the doctoral program is around three to four years.
Number three on our list is Stanford University,
which is number three on our list
both for its Graduate School of Education
and for its undergraduate offerings.
Stanford's Graduate School of Education
offers several different master's programs.
Among them are the Stanford Teachers Education Program,
or STEP; the Learning, Design and Technology Program;
or the Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies Program.
As you can likely tell from the titles
of these different programs,
they lean more towards teaching and pedagogy,
and towards education policy making,
whichever route you decide that you want to take
as a master's or a doctorate in education.
Stanford also allows undergraduates
to take courses at the Graduate School of Education.
It's the only graduate program at Stanford
that allows students to do this on such a regular
and regimented basis through their UP program.
These offerings allow undergraduates to minor in education
to give them a core understanding of the issues
that face educators and education policy makers,
to prepare them for a future postgraduate career
in education, or for teaching and education policy making.
Number two on our list is Harvard University's
Graduate School of Education, founded in 1920.
Since 1920, the Graduate School of Education at Harvard
has been at the forefront of leaps forward
in education policy making, and in our understandings
of pedagogy and psychology as it relates to education.
Harvard's location in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
puts it directly across the Charles River from Boston,
which was the birthplace of public education
in the United States and also the home to hundreds
of innovative schools that students
at the Graduate School of Education
are constantly working at and studying at.
The Graduate of School of Education at Harvard is also home
to Gutman Library, one of the most famous
education libraries in the world.
Gutman's collections focus on education administration,
on policy through elementary and secondary education,
on human psychology, on development,
the history of education, and more.
It's one of the best resources, literally, on the planet
for education policy and history.
Number one on our list is the UCL,
or University College London Institute of Education, or IOE.
This one is huge.
The UCL Institute of Education has been ranked number one
in education in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 by QS,
and it was awarded
the 2015 Queen's Anniversary Prize in the UK.
That's all to say that, basically,
the Institute of Education at UCL has been the number one
education school and the number one trailblazer
in education policy making for a long time.
They're the best of the best.
There's a number of reasons why UCL's Institute of Education
has been the best in the world for so many years running.
One is possibly that it has the largest education library
in Europe, but another is that its location
in Bloomsbury, London, means that UCL
is the biggest provider of teacher education
in the entire UK.
If you're a student of education at UCL,
chances are you're also going to become a teacher
in one of the many, many diverse schools throughout London.
Both students and researchers regularly collaborate
with schools throughout London,
and they've created partnerships with more than 600 schools
in teacher training, in professional development,
and in collaborative research opportunities
and development projects for London schools.
The research of educators at UCL
is also really, really focused on creating change.
They're all about addressing society's most pressing issues
and understanding that education
is the best way to address those issues.
This impact extends, not just to London
and to London schools, but to worldwide collaborations
with other top education schools,
particularly because UCL research is known
for being the best in the world in the field of education.
This global spread is evident in UCL's
global engagement strategy, which pushes places
like the Institute of Education within the UCL umbrella
to work with more than 100 countries around the globe
to work on their policy making.
So this has been the top six education schools in the world.
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