2025 Best Curriculum & Instruction Doctor's Degree Schools
33Colleges in the United States
1,788Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in curriculum & instruction, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #21 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 33 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for curriculum & instruction students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,788 doctor's degrees in curriculum & instruction to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Curriculum & Instruction School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of curriculum & instruction for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality curriculum & instruction program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on curriculum & instruction students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of curriculum & instruction students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized curriculum & instruction related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for curriculum & instruction students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Curriculum & Instruction Schools
The curriculum & instruction 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 Curriculum & Instruction Doctor's Degree Schools.
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Rankings in Majors Related to Curriculum & Instruction
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Notes and References
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of curriculum & instruction for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality curriculum & instruction program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
