In March, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College hosted a virtual event highlighting the hardships surrounding education in Afghanistan and one woman’s courageous battle to bring this basic necessity to the children of her country.

When Gary Herberger was a high school junior, his physics teacher sat down and announced to the class that Herberger would be teaching them for the rest of the semester. The teacher told him, “I can learn more from you than I could possibly teach you.”

The memory of that incident caused the late philanthropist, businessman, architect and Arizona State University patron to set up the Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy (HYSA) 10 years ago.

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is known for the depth and diversity of its research. Average annual expenditures for education research at ASU totaled more than $73 million from 2020-21; the most of any education program in the United States, according to U.S.News and World Report.

Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 12 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Graduate Schools of Education rankings among 279 universities that participated in the rankings survey. Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 5, ahead of the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Virginia. 

Arizona State University has 13 graduate degree programs that rank in the top 10 nationwide — including one that is ranked No. 1, according to new rankings just released by U.S. News & World Report.

ASU’s master’s degree program in homeland security was ranked No. 1 in the country, tied with the Naval Postgraduate School, and ranked higher than the programs at Harvard and Columbia universities. Last year, the homeland security degree program, in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, ranked third.

Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College placed No. 12 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Graduate Schools of Education rankings among 279 universities that participated in the rankings survey. Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 5, ahead of the  University of California-Berkeley, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Virginia. 

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