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Top 10 Best Universities in the World to Obtain an Education Degree in 2023

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Top 10 Best Universities in the world to obtain a Bachelor of Education Degree in 2023

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Times Higher Education has ranked the best universities for education degrees to help you decide on the best institution for you.

The education degree could be Diploma, Bachelor, Master or a PhD in any education related field.

Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley take the top spots in the ranking. The University of Hong Kong and Peking University are the only universities in Asia to rank among the top 10, at fifth and eighth, respectively. The only UK institutions in the top 10 are the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, at fourth and sixth, respectively.

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Top 10 Best Universities in the World to obtain an Education Degree in 2023

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Education rank 2023	Education rank 2022	University	Country/region
1	1	Stanford University	United States
2	2	University of California, Berkeley	United States
3	3	Harvard University	United States
4	5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	=6	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
6	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
7	8	Peking University	China
8	=10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
9	12	Michigan State University	United States
10	=10	University of Pennsylvania	United States

An education degree can open doors to working and teaching in schools as well as carrying out research into how we learn.

US universities are well represented in the entire subject ranking for education, with 134 universities. A total of 75 of the universities are from the UK and 67 are from Asia.

Canada and Australia are also represented in the ranking, with 21 and 35 universities, respectively.

Times Higher Education subject rankings are based on the same 13 performance indicators used in the overall World University Rankings 2023. However, the methodology is carefully recalibrated for each subject, with the weightings adjusted to suit the individual fields. The full methodology for education can be found here.

Top 5 Universities for education degrees

5. University of Hong Kong

The Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong provides teaching in Chinese-language education and English-language education. There is also a division for mathematics and science education, speech and hearing sciences and information and technology studies.

There are seven research centres, including the Centre for educational leadership, the Centre for communication disorders and the Centre for the Advancement of Chinese-language Education and research.

4. University of Cambridge

Education is offered at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Cambridge.

The three-year undergraduate education degree accepts only 42 students per year.

The undergraduate course consists of three possible tracks: education, psychology and learning; education, policy and international development; or education, English, drama and the arts.

Postgraduates wishing to study education can choose a PGCE, master’s or doctorate. The PGCE course is taken as a specialism in primary or secondary (high school) education. Both options include significant placement time, with secondary PGCE students spending at least 120 days of the course in schools.

3. Harvard University

Harvard University offers 13-year-long master’s programmes and a number of doctoral programmes in education.

The master’s programmes cover many aspects of the subject, including arts and education, higher education, international education policy, and human development and education.

Among the faculty are experts in wide-ranging aspects of education, including bilingual education, adult learning, economy and education, and social services and schools.

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2. University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley offers MA and PhD programmes across a wide range of topics in education, such as the impact of race, class and gender, and the influence of politics and policy on education.

Undergraduates also have the option to take a minor in education, and it is one of the university’s most popular minors.

At Berkeley, there are also courses that will prepare students for a teaching career, from classroom teaching to district-level leadership.

1. Stanford University

The Stanford University Graduate School of Education has a high reputation across the US as one of the best education schools in the country.

The School of Education is one of seven schools at the university, which also include business, law, engineering and medicine.

The school provides seven master’s programmes, 21 doctoral programmes and three joint programmes. There are also undergraduate programmes for students wishing to pursue a minor in education or to take part in the honours programme.

The doctoral programmes aim to promote research in education, looking at the psychology behind how we learn as well as curriculum studies and teacher training.

Top 200 Universities for education degrees 2023

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Education rank 2023	Education rank 2022	University	Country/region
1	1	Stanford University	United States
2	2	University of California, Berkeley	United States
3	3	Harvard University	United States
4	5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	=6	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
6	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
7	8	Peking University	China
8	=10	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
9	12	Michigan State University	United States
10	=10	University of Pennsylvania	United States
11	13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
12	15	UCL	United Kingdom
13	17	University of Toronto	Canada
14	20	Monash University	Australia
15	14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
16	24	New York University	United States
17	21	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
18	19	University of Melbourne	Australia
19	28	Beijing Normal University	China
20	9	Vanderbilt University	United States
21	16	University of Texas at Austin	United States
22	22	University of British Columbia	Canada
23	18	University of Washington	United States
24	23	Utrecht University	Netherlands
25	34	Boston College	United States
26	36	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore
27	58	University of Sydney	Australia
28	26	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
29	33	Maastricht University	Netherlands
30	41	University of Auckland	New Zealand
31	=29	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
=32	31	King’s College London	United Kingdom
=32	35	The University of Tokyo	Japan
34	32	Ohio State University (Main campus)	United States
35	38	University of Helsinki	Finland
36	42	KU Leuven	Belgium
37	=29	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
38	46	Florida State University	United States
39	=44	McGill University	Canada
40	=53	The University of Queensland	Australia
41	27	Penn State (Main campus)	United States
42	25	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan
=43	47	University of California, Irvine	United States
=43	52	Johns Hopkins University	United States
=43	76	University of Tübingen	Germany
46	40	Arizona State University (Tempe)	United States
47	37	East China Normal University	China
48	48	Kyoto University	Japan
49	79	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	Taiwan
50	=66	Technical University of Munich	Germany
51	=61	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
52	=55	University of Oslo	Norway
=53	=59	Korea University	South Korea
=53	78	Seoul National University	South Korea
55	=49	University of Florida	United States
56	NR	University of Twente	Netherlands
57	=83	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
58	=44	University of Southern California	United States
59	80	University of California, San Diego	United States
60	=49	Indiana University	United States
61	101–125	University of Antwerp	Belgium
62	87	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
63	75	LMU Munich	Germany
64	=69	UNSW Sydney	Australia
65	101–125	Western University	Canada
=66	51	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
=66	=100	Texas A&M University	United States
68	=61	Brown University	United States
69	=55	Zhejiang University	China
70	126–150	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
=71	77	Ghent University	Belgium
=71	43	University of Virginia (Main campus)	United States
73	101–125	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
74	=53	Deakin University	Australia
75	=90	University of Adelaide	Australia
76	151–175	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
77	72	Durham University	United Kingdom
=78	39	University of Georgia	United States
=78	71	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
=78	NR	Purdue University West Lafayette	United States
81	101–125	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
82	301–400	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
83	=83	University College Dublin	Ireland
84	101–125	Aarhus University	Denmark
85	64	Yonsei University (Seoul campus)	South Korea
86	=55	University of Minnesota	United States
=87	=92	Birkbeck, University of London	United Kingdom
=87	63	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
=89	=100	University of Arizona	United States
=89	101–125	Simon Fraser University	Canada
91	=90	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
92	201–250	Sorbonne University	France
93	=69	Macquarie University	Australia
=94	101–125	Curtin University	Australia
=94	88	University of Reading	United Kingdom
96	101–125	University of Bath	United Kingdom
=97	82	Free University of Berlin	Germany
=97	101–125	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
=97	201–250	University of South Australia	Australia
=100	=66	University of Jyväskylä	Finland
=100	94	University of Malaya	Malaysia
=100	101–125	University of Montreal	Canada
101–125	98	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
101–125	81	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
101–125	101–125	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
101–125	=92	Fudan University	China
101–125	126–150	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
101–125	=96	University of Hamburg	Germany
101–125	176–200	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States
101–125	68	University of Kansas	United States
101–125	126–150	University of Limerick	Ireland
101–125	126–150	University of Macau	Macao
101–125	101–125	University of Massachusetts	United States
101–125	101–125	Middle East Technical University	Turkey
101–125	86	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University	Taiwan
101–125	99	North Carolina State University	United States
101–125	151–175	The Open University	United Kingdom
101–125	101–125	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus	United States
101–125	151–175	University of São Paulo	Brazil
101–125	101–125	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
101–125	=73	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
101–125	=96	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Belgium
101–125	126–150	The University of Western Australia	Australia
101–125	101–125	University of York	United Kingdom
101–125	95	University of Zurich	Switzerland
126–150	151–175	University of Alberta	Canada
126–150	151–175	Australian Catholic University	Australia
126–150	151–175	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
126–150	201–250	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
126–150	126–150	University of California, Davis	United States
126–150	201–250	Chung-Ang University	South Korea
126–150	=83	University of Connecticut	United States
126–150	151–175	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
126–150	101–125	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
126–150	NR	Friedrich Schiller University Jena	Germany
126–150	126–150	University of Groningen	Netherlands
126–150	89	University of Iowa	United States
126–150	65	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
126–150	151–175	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
126–150	201–250	University of Newcastle	Australia
126–150	101–125	University of Ottawa	Canada
126–150	101–125	Queen’s University	Canada
126–150	101–125	University of Rochester	United States
126–150	=73	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
126–150	126–150	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
126–150	NR	Swansea University	United Kingdom
126–150	101–125	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia
126–150	126–150	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
151–175	251–300	Aalborg University	Denmark
151–175	176–200	University of Barcelona	Spain
151–175	126–150	University of Calgary	Canada
151–175	176–200	University of California, Riverside	United States
151–175	251–300	University of Campinas	Brazil
151–175	126–150	University of Cape Town	South Africa
151–175	176–200	University of Cologne	Germany
151–175	101–125	University of Delaware	United States
151–175	126–150	Ewha Womans University	South Korea
151–175	201–250	Griffith University	Australia
151–175	301–400	University of Hawai’i at Mānoa	United States
151–175	201–250	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong
151–175	126–150	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
151–175	151–175	Monterrey Institute of Technology	Mexico
151–175	151–175	University of Oulu	Finland
151–175	176–200	University of Padua	Italy
151–175	176–200	Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris	Malaysia
151–175	151–175	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
151–175	301–400	University of Saskatchewan	Canada
151–175	151–175	Stockholm University	Sweden
151–175	176–200	Tilburg University	Netherlands
151–175	101–125	TU Dortmund University	Germany
151–175	201–250	University of Vienna	Austria
151–175	176–200	University of Wollongong	Australia
176–200	301–400	University of Bologna	Italy
176–200	126–150	University of Cyprus	Cyprus
176–200	201–250	University of Geneva	Switzerland
176–200	176–200	Georgia State University	United States
176–200	126–150	University of Graz	Austria
176–200	151–175	University of Lisbon	Portugal
176–200	201–250	University of Mannheim	Germany
176–200	126–150	Mizzou – University of Missouri	United States
176–200	201–250	Nagoya University	Japan
176–200	201–250	University of Nicosia	Cyprus
176–200	151–175	Northeast Normal University	China
176–200	251–300	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
176–200	201–250	Queen’s University Belfast	United Kingdom
176–200	176–200	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia
176–200	201–250	University of Salamanca	Spain
176–200	201–250	University of South Florida	United States
176–200	NR	University of Surrey	United Kingdom
176–200	126–150	Syracuse University	United States
176–200	201–250	Tampere University	Finland
176–200	176–200	TU Dresden	Germany
176–200	151–175	Tufts University	United States
176–200	176–200	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States
176–200	176–200	York University	Canada

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Editors note: As part of our THE statement on Ukraine published on 2 March 2022, Russian universities have been given less prominence in our rankings. Russian and Belarusian universities that met the criteria for this ranking are not displayed in the table above.

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