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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for teacher education students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 152 degrees in teacher education to qualified students.
The teacher education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Teacher Education rankings. 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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Kentucky.
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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.
Any student who is interested in teacher education has to check out University of Louisville. Located in the city of Louisville, UofL is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #421 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UofL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 57 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Western Kentucky University if you want to pursue a degree in teacher education. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #851 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WKU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 32 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student who is interested in teacher education has to take a look at Murray State University. Located in the distant town of Murray, Murray State is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 16th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 23 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Murray State in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in teacher education needs to take a look at Eastern Kentucky University. Eastern is a large public university located in the town of Richmond. This university ranks 12th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 16 teacher education students who graduated with this degree at Eastern 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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The teacher education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Teacher Education rankings. 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.
