We offer Colorado's top-ranked graduate programs in education. As a graduate student in the School of Education, you will work closely with a small, collaborative group of nationally renowned faculty and a supportive community dedicated to preparing engaged educators, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders.
Devote your learning experience to the critical examination of the relationships among education, society, culture, and government, with special emphasis on problems of race, gender, sexual diversity, social class, and multiculturalism.
Explore school culture, language policies, and the social and political context of schooling. We are devoted to the critical examination of theory, practice, and policy in: the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students and the education of exceptional children.
Take an interdisciplinary approach to studying learning, teaching, and development in schools and out-of-school contexts. Our program is on the leading edge of explorations of issues of social justice, power, and culture in learning.
Develop a greater understanding and expertise in the teaching and learning of literacy. We explore the dynamics of literacy learning from childhood through adulthood, examine literacy practices both in and out of school, and study literacy needs across change.
This is a place for intellectually curious and motivated students who want to learn about research methodology with an eye toward influencing education policy and practice.
CU Boulder is a proud national leader in STEM education, and we offer STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education tracks to support educators who are interested in developing a greater understanding and expertise in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science.
Teacher Learning, Research and Practice programs enrich understanding of the histories and foundations of knowledge, inquiry, learning, and pedagogy in teaching and research in subject areas.
Featured program
Make a difference in your classroom, district and community with certificates and a Master's degree in teacher leadership. Affordable, accessible, and designed with instrumental input from teachers, the new Teacher Leadership program is offered entirely online and features stackable graduate certificates that can lead to a full Master's degree.
Fall 2020 enrollment set to begin August 3.
In an effort to safeguard educational equity and access during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the CU Boulder School of Education will temporarily adopt a test-optional policy for the GRE requirement for prospective doctoral applicants seeking Fall 2021 admission.
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Best College Town in America.
American Institute for Economic Research 2017
#14
in Education Policy among more than 300 private and public graduate schools of education nationwide.
US News & World Report
#1
graduate education program in the state.
US News & World Report
Most Diverse
% of students of color than any other graduate program on campus
