Spreadsheets: Largest Teacher Prep Programs (2010)

These are the schools that graduated at least a thousand new teachers a year, circa 2010, according to the USDE's Total ed degrees offered in 2010:  

Many of the top schools (numerically) are partially or even completely online.  Via @hechingerreport

Comments

[Sarah]

I'm kind of surprised to see University of Phoenix at the top of the list. I realize this can happen anywhere, but my parent's neighbor got an online degree from them by hiring others to write her papers for her. With that and reviews I've read of them online, I've never held that college in high esteem.

[gurjeet]

"The Situation" Sorrentino. Video after the jump.

[Ari]

Pretty easy to see the irrelevance of teacher training programs, considering that four of the top nine are based in Arizona, which has one of the worst educational attainment rates for its students in the country. I would love to see a second column showing the graduation rates next to these schools. When I taught in Arizona, I posted the retention and graduation rates of our local community colleges, along with the major Universities and programs that students often went into. The University of Phoenix at the time had about a 7% graduation rate at the time. Grand Canyon had around 20%. Even a "real" university like ASU only had a grad rate a notch above 40%.

[Eulalia Sherrod]

Pretty easy to see the irrelevance of teacher training programs, considering that four of the top nine are based in Arizona, which has one of the worst educational attainment rates for its students in the country.