Beginnings:
The College of Education was founded in 1891 as the School of Pedagogy at The University of Texas at Austin.
Location :
The college is housed in the George I. Sanchez Building near the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Congress Ave., just four blocks north of the Texas Capitol.
Core Values
- Excellence: Expecting the highest level of achievement by students, faculty, and graduates
- Leadership: Developing consensus, generating knowledge and ideas to solve pressing educational and social problems
- Diversity: Embracing individual differences in every aspect of the educational process
- Discovery: Expanding knowledge and human understanding
- Innovation: Creating and testing new approaches and models for solving educational and social problems
- Collaboration: Building relationships, nurturing partnerships, and enhancing opportunities
- Service: Caring for others; addressing the needs and problems of society
- Accountability: Accepting responsibility and evaluating effectiveness
Vision
The College of Education will be the preeminent place society will turn to solve the pressing problems facing education, including health and wellness, and the place of choice for the preparation of educational leaders.
Mission
The mission of the College of Education is to recreate the landscape of education by providing research-based programs to prepare leaders who will empower tomorrow's citizens as lifelong learners; developing and disseminating knowledge; and contributing innovative ideas and leadership to solve the problems of a diverse society.
Departments
- curriculum and instruction
- educational administration
- educational psychology
- special education
- kinesiology and health education
College Centers and Institutes
- Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
- Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts
- Institute for Public School Initiatives
- Center for STEM Education
- Texas Center for Disability Studies
- Pearson Center for Applied Psychometric Research
- H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
- Fitness Institute of Texas
Graduate Programs
- curriculum and instruction
- educational administration
- educational psychology
- foreign language education
- science and mathematics education
- special education
- kinesiology and health education
Degrees Granted and Certification
- around 800-850 undergraduate degrees awarded annually (50 percent are B.S. degrees in applied learning and development and in kinesiology)
- around 370 master’s and doctoral degrees are awarded annually
- about 500 students annually are recommended for Texas education certification through the State Board for Education Certification
Faculty
- 135 full-time tenured/tenure track
- 75 non-tenure track
Students
- 2,188 undergraduates enrolled (1,027 elementary education majors and 1,161 kinesiology and health education majors)
- 1,276 graduate students enrolled
Endowments
- book value of the college’s endowment is around $31 million (market value is about $51 million), with $13 million of that in faculty endowments, $12 million in student endowments and $6 million in program endowments
Research Expenditures
- for the sixth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the College of Education number one nationally in research expenditures, with a total of $61 million