Welcome to the UNI College of Education
When you come to UNI, you’ll find a friendly atmosphere and scholarship of the highest quality. You will learn from professors who are leaders in their fields of study. In and out of the classroom, you’ll have access to state-of-the-art technology. Your classroom experience will be augmented by the many student organizations and international opportunities that form UNI’s culture of excellence and service.

US News & World Report ranks UNI second among the Midwest’s top public universities. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine calls UNI one of the nation’s top 100 values in public colleges. The reason is simple: the quality of the real-world opportunities and classroom experience you’ll find at UNI is virtually unique in the Midwest.

At the College of Education, 2,755 graduate and undergraduate students study under 247 faculty. Courses here are dynamic and interactive, taught almost exclusively by professors, not graduate assistants. The study of education at UNI involves much more than sitting in a classroom. Here, education majors complete 80+ hours of field experience before they begin student teaching. At our laboratory school, at the Freeburg Center for Early Education, and in our many research and service programs, cutting-edge theory is put into practice - with students participating as leaders as well as learners.

Come visit UNI. See our beautiful campus, visit our classes, and tour our facilities. We’re proud of what we do, and we invite you to join us.

Brief History
The College of Education is the oldest department on campus; in fact, UNI began as a teacher preparation school in 1876. The university was renamed the Iowa State Teachers College in 1909, and the State College of Iowa in 1961. Not until that year did the college allow its students to graduate without completing the teacher preparation sequence.

Since its formation as a college within the University, the College of Education’s commitment to excellence has established UNI as one of the Midwest’s premier teacher preparation schools. Our university website features a detailed history of the university.