Fast Facts
Fast Facts about the Graduate School of Education
- School of Education Founding: 1969
- Full-time faculty members: 21
- Average classroom cohort size: 10-12 students
- Number of graduate degree programs: 7
- Number of teaching and administrative credential programs: 5
- Teaching credentials conferred since 1991: 1900
- Total number of GSOE alumni: 3,520
Other Highlights
- The GSOE offers the only Math Blended Program in the UC system — and one of only two in the entire state of California.
- The GSOE's Blended Program allows students to begin teacher preparation as undergraduates, and to assume teaching positions upon earning a master’s degree.
- UC Riverside was the first UC campus to offer lower division education courses and to articulate those courses with more than 70 community colleges, thus building a pathway from community colleges to UCR’s teacher credentialing program.
- In 2004, the GSOE received an $11.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to recruit and prepare student teachers.