2025 Best Teacher Education Schools in the Far Western US Region
8Colleges in the Far Western US Region
1,794Teacher Education Degrees Awarded
Teacher Education is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #97 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Teacher Education Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,794 degrees in teacher education annually.
Your choice of teacher education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Teacher Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Teacher Education in the Far Western US Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the teacher education degree levels they offer.
Top Far Western US Region Schools in Teacher Education
University of California - Irvine is a great option for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. Located in the city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #73 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UC Irvine is a great university overall.
There were roughly 268 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at UC Irvine in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in teacher education needs to look into Western Oregon University. Located in the fringe town of Monmouth, Western Oregon State College is a public university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #448 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Western Oregon State College is a great university overall.
There were roughly 3 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Western Oregon State College in the most recent year we have data available.
Heritage University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. Heritage University is a fairly small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Toppenish. This university ranks 19th out of 50 colleges for overall quality in the state of Washington.
There were roughly 2 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Heritage University in the most recent data year.
Fresno Pacific University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in teacher education. Fresno Pacific is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Fresno. This university ranks 96th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 56 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Fresno Pacific in the most recent year we have data available.
GFU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of Newberg. This university ranks 9th out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were about 110 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at GFU in the most recent year we have data available.
Pacific is a small private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Forest Grove. A Best Colleges rank of #411 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Pacific is a great university overall.
There were roughly 20 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Pacific in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize city of Eugene, UO is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #167 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UO is a great university overall.
There were roughly 224 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at UO in the most recent data year.
Located in the remote town of La Grande, EOU is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 23rd out of 29 schools for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were roughly 28 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at EOU in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of teacher education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Teacher Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
