SESP Ranks Number 7  Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) ranks number seven in the nation, according to the new ranking of graduate schools of education by U.S.News & World Report. This is a jump from last year's number 10 ranking.Dean Penelope Peterson says, “The hallmark of our school is innovation. We continue to recruit and retain exceptional faculty and students who turn their creative energies to developing innovative approaches and solutions to important educational and social problems.” The U.S. News ranking is based on indicators including assessments by education school deans and school superintendents, GRE scores, selectivity, funded research and student/faculty ratio. The most weight is given to a quality assessment by education school and graduate school deans. SESP has ranked in the top 10 for six of the past seven years. “We are very proud of the performance of the faculty and students of SESP that has earned the school this distinction,” says Northwestern University Provost Lawrence B. Dumas. SESP posted the highest GRE scores of all graduate schools of education in the nation. Its doctoral students’ verbal scores averaged 649, and quantitative scores averaged 714. Overall, SESP ranked third among the top 10 schools for the selectivity of its doctoral program. SESP’s program had an 11 percent acceptance rate, making it more competitive than ever before in its history. SESP is also distinguished by a high amount of funded research per faculty member and a low student/faculty ratio. Funded research averaged $407,300 per faculty member, rising $11,600 since last year’s report. The student/faculty ratio is 6.2:1. For 2008 SESP received the highest overall score it has ever received, despite the fact that the school is much smaller than the other schools of education in the top 10. Larger schools are able to earn more points in categories such as total research dollars and number of doctorates granted. The top 10 education schools for 2008, according to U.S. News, are as follows: 1. Teacher’s College, Columbia University 2. Stanford University 3. Harvard University and Vanderbilt University 5. University of California – Los Angeles 6. University of Michigan 7. Northwestern University 8. University of California – Berkeley 9. University of Washington 10. University of Wisconsin by Marilyn Sherman Updated March 29, 2007  E-mail this story
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