If you pursue a degree in teacher education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #97 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Teacher Education Schools in Florida ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 96 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for teacher education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Teacher Education Schools in Florida ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the teacher education degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat University of Central Florida if you want to pursue a degree in teacher education. Located in the large suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 70 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 18 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent data year.
University of South Florida - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in teacher education. Located in the city of Tampa, USF Tampa is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 70 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 50 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at USF Tampa in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in teacher education needs to look into University of Miami. Located in the large suburb of Coral Gables, U Miami is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #175 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U Miami is a great university overall.
There were about 17 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at U Miami in the most recent data year.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for teacher education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
