2025 Best Teacher Education Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
441Teacher 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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Teacher Education Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 441 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.
The teacher education school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Teacher Education Schools in Pennsylvania.
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Best Schools for Teacher Education in Pennsylvania
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.
It is difficult to beat Delaware County Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in teacher education. Delaware County Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the large suburb of Media. This college ranks 41st out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 13 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Delaware County Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in teacher education has to check out Holy Family University. Located in the city of Philadelphia, Holy Family is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 28th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 28 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Holy Family in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in teacher education has to take a look at Gwynedd Mercy University. Located in the large suburb of Gwynedd Valley, Gwynedd - Mercy is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #488 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Gwynedd - Mercy is a great university overall.
There were about 53 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Gwynedd - Mercy 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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