Signs of Success

Established on the Auburn University campus in 1915 as the Department of Education, the college saw several names over the years, including the School of Agriculture Education (1918) and the School of Education (1920).  It finally received college and finally college status in 1985.  Despite its name, the college has been preparing students to educate and lead as tomorrow's educators, administrators, health specialists and human service professionals throughout its nine and a half decades of service. [read more]

Since 2005, the college has remained in among the top graduate schools of education as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. Its 2010 ranking, no. 66 nationally, is among its highest ranking during that time period.  Its current ranking puts it in the top 25% of the 278 schools evaluated by U.S. News, and no 46th nationally among schools of education at public colleges and universities. [read more]

Currently, Education students can pursue 23 different undergraduate degrees in three of our four academic departments. Our most popular majors? According to fall 2009 enrollment information, the "top five" are elementary education, exercise science, early childhood education, general social science education, and mathematics education. [learn more]

Graduate programs in our college are popular both with full-time students and working professionals who attend evening and weekend classes as part-time students.  Our most popular? According to fall 2009 enrollment data, the "top five" are administration of higher education, adult education, collaborative teacher special education, administration of elementary and secondary education, and exercise science. [learn more]

Enrollment in the college has been on a steady incline during the past five years, and today our college's enrollment accounts for about 10 percent of Auburn University's overall enrollment.  In fall 2009, nearly 2,700 students call the College of Education home.

The College of Education boasts the university's largest graduate enrollment.  Nearly one in every three Education students is a graduate student.

The college surpassed the 600 mark for degrees awarded in a year during the 2005-06 academic year — and hasn't looked back since.  During the 2009-10 academic year, the college neared its next milestone of almost 700 degrees awarded in one academic year.

Through the combined research efforts of our faculty, and the support efforts by our college's Office of Research and Innovation, the college saw an increase in the number of proposals submitted for funding by federal and state agencies, industry associations and organizations, private corporations and entities, and nonprofit foundations during the 2009-10 academic year.  During the previous academic year, the college hit an all-time high of $8.16 million in externally funded research. [learn more]

The college places teacher education interns from every discipline in more than 200 schools each year in central Alabama, east Alabama and west Georgia schools.  Through each semester-long internship, our students teach alongside K-12 educators during a full work week.  It's easy to see how the investment of their time can have academic − and economic − impacts on the schools and school districts where our interns are placed! [learn more]

Through the Consortium for Overseas Teaching and other relationships forged by the college, teacher-education interns can have semester-long international teaching experiences in 15 countries.  Many of faculty have also created short-term service-learning excursions to international destinations to increase the global and cultural experiences of our students.  These give Education students a path to every continent of the world − except Antarctica! [learn more]

The college's portfolio of student support includes 60 undergraduate scholarship, graduate assistantship and graduate fellowship funds.  For the current academic year, these funds produced 106 undergraduate awards and 23 graduate assistantships and fellowships − totaling more than $263,000.  This included four new endowed scholarships and one annual scholarship − all presented at our annual scholarship ceremony in August 2010.  [read more]