Teacher Education is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #97 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in Oregon to determine which ones were the best for teacher education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 753 degrees in teacher education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of teacher education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Teacher Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The teacher education school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Teacher Education Schools in Oregon.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the teacher education degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in teacher education has to look into Pacific University. Pacific is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Forest Grove. A Best Colleges rank of #194 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Pacific is a great university overall.
There were approximately 48 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Pacific in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in teacher education needs to check out University of Oregon. Located in the city of Eugene, UO is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #195 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UO is a great university overall.
There were approximately 349 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at UO in the most recent data year.
Western Oregon University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in teacher education. Located in the fringe town of Monmouth, Western Oregon State College is a public university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #428 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Western Oregon State College is a great university overall.
There were approximately 34 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Western Oregon State College in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in teacher education has to look into George Fox University. GFU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the fringe town of Newberg. This university ranks 9th out of 30 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were about 90 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at GFU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of La Grande, EOU is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 19th out of 30 schools for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were approximately 19 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at EOU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize suburb of Ashland, Southern Oregon University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 18th out of 30 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were approximately 143 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Southern Oregon University in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Portland, Warner Pacific College ADP is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population. This college ranks 14th out of 30 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were roughly 20 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Warner Pacific College ADP in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of teacher education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Teacher Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
