Every year, U.S. News and World Report ranks the best grad schools in 10 different fields of study. Their 2008 report ranks the following ten graduate schools in education as the best in the country:

1. Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
2. Stanford University (CA)
3. Harvard University (MA)
4. Vanderbilt University (Peabody) (TN)
5. University of California–Los Angeles 
6. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor 
7. Northwestern University (IL)
8. University of California–Berkeley 
9. University of Washington 
10. University of Wisconsin–Madison 

Their ranking consider many factors, including peer assessment score, assessment score by superintendents, average GRE score, acceptance rate, student-teacher ratio, number of Doctoral/Master’s Degrees awarded, and the amount of research funded to both students and members of the faculty in previous years.