About the COE | College of Education

The University of Wyoming College of Education…

• Established in 1914
• Accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education/Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation continuously since 1954
• Provides 1:1 advising, academic success programs, note and test taking help, support for state licensure processes
• Collaborates with the UW Center for Advising and Career Services to provide two career fairs each year
• Distributes more than $225,000 in scholarships awarded each year
• Enrolls more than 1100 undergraduate students and 500 graduate students (Spring 2011)
• Requires specific methods coursework for Literacy, Math & Science, and Humanities for Elementary Education majors 
• Requires significant discipline-specific coursework for Secondary Education majors complete, in some cases designating a second full major on transcripts
• Offers many undergraduate and graduate courses online through the Outreach School, including entire graduate degrees
• Offers multiple opportunities to engage in field experiences, practica, and student teaching in a wide variety of both rural and urban school contexts
• Requires a full semester of full-time student teaching under the supervision of a highly qualified mentor teacher
• Reports pass rates for the state-required licensure tests above 85%
• Participated in the Education Teacher Performance Assessment (EdTPA) pilot program
• Places 25-30 student teachers in Campbell County School District #1 (Gillette)
• Participates in 16 school district partnerships throughout Wyoming
• Offers a graduate minor in Research Methods
• Hosts the Sullivan Family Student Center, a facility that includes state of the art education classrooms in a remodeled building that was recently featured in Interior Design Journal
• Hosts the UW Literacy Research Center and Clinic on the ground floor of the Education Annex building
• Employs 64 full-time faculty members, 3 full-time administrators, 1 full-time director, and 19 full-time support staff in the College