Ranked #21 in popularity, curriculum & instruction is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 33 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Curriculum & Instruction Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,788 doctor's degrees in curriculum & instruction during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Curriculum & Instruction School for Your Doctor's Degree
The curriculum doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality curriculum program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to curriculum & instruction students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other curriculum & instruction students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt curriculum & instruction students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Curriculum & Instruction Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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It is hard to beat University of Florida if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Soon after graduating, curriculum doctorate recipients typically earn around $73,463 in their early careers.
It's difficult to beat Utah State University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in curriculum & instruction. Located in the small city of Logan, USU is a public university with a very large student population.
Those curriculum & instruction students who get their doctor's degree from Utah State University make $18,371 more than the typical curriculum grad.
STJ is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Queens.
Doctorate recipients from the curriculum & instruction major at St John's University - New York make $64,422 more than the typical college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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).