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Throughout its history, the College of Education has been a leader in improving educational opportunities for all children. It has earned a national reputation for its innovative and rigorous programs of professional study. The college offers undergraduate degrees in elementary education, special education, and kinesiology. From empowering a new generation of educators to use technology to the search for new knowledge about teachers and their learning, the College is focused in this new century on the challenges facing America's classrooms and schools. The College's five-year teacher preparation program has emerged as a national model. The program coordinates baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate work, and is focused on deepening both content and pedagogical knowledge for teachers. Field studies and full-year internships integrate the work in k-12 schools with course work on campus. Students choose from the following teaching areas: elementary education, kinesiology, special education, and secondary education with many major and minor fields. The Department of Kinesiology offers a B.S. degree in kinesiology that also prepares professionals for entry into or further study in areas of athletic training, coaching, health and wellness promotion, community physical education, fitness leadership, and physical therapy. Graduate programs in the College provide opportunity for advanced study and research in 11 Ph.D., three educational specialist, and 11 master's degree programs. For the seventh consecutive year, U.S. News and World Report's rankings of 182 graduate schools in education rated our elementary and secondary education programs as the best in the nation. MSU was also ranked second in rehabilitation counseling, third in both curriculum and instruction and in educational psychology, fourth in higher education administration, and seventh in education policy. These reputation-based rankings reveal the high regard deans and senior faculty of other colleges of education hold for our programs.
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Degrees Granted 
The magazine also ranks the doctoral granting schools of education by considering 14 measures of academic quality, including faculty resources, reputation, student selectivity, and research activity. In these combined rankings, the College was 15th in the country. The list below is taken from the 2002 U.S. News and World Report rankings of America's best graduate programs. The graph above indicates the number of undergraduate degrees (B.A. and B.S.) awarded by the College in elementary education, special education, and kinsesiology over the past five years. The graph shows the number of students seeking both elementary and secondary education who completed the internship year during the past five years. The graph shows the increase in the number of interns over the year, which demonstrates the College's strong commitment to meeting the needs of the k-12 classroom while maintaining rigorous standards in the preparation of tomorrow's teachers. Finally, the number of M.A./M.S., Ed.S., and Ph.D. degrees awarded by the College over the past five years is shown.
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