Graduate master's (MA) and PhD programs are available in four general areas in the School of Education: Curriculum and Instruction (C & I); Educational and Psychological Studies (EPSY); Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice (EFPP); and Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity (EECD). A PhD program is available in Research and Evaluation Methodology (REM). Joint PhD programs are available in available in EFPP and REM as well as EPSY and the Institute of Cognitive Science. Graduate programs combining the MA and teacher licensure are also available.

Graduate study in the School of Education is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills associated with mastering and critically analyzing scholarship in the field of education and, particularly at the PhD level, with the knowledge and skills associated with contributing to that scholarship. Students work with a collaborative faculty whose members combine nationally and internationally recognized senior scholars with a cadre of energetic up-and-coming junior scholars and whose overall scholarly productivity is among the top 20 of U.S. schools and colleges of education. The faculty share a commitment to two broad principles that unite graduate study across the Schoolís program areas: (1) evidence-based policy and practice and (2) democracy, diversity and social justice.