2025 Best Educational Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools
20Colleges in the United States
330Doctor's Degrees
If you pursue a doctor's degree in educational psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #73 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 20 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Educational Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 330 doctor's degrees in educational psychology to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Educational Psychology School for Your Doctor's Degree
The educational psychology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different 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 many resources a school devotes to educational psychology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other educational psychology students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
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 educational psychology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for educational psychology students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Educational Psychology Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
The educational psychology doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
